Structural health monitoring of river bridges using wireless sensor networks

Abstract

The river bridges are the main connective parts of the world. The deterioration or damage of the river bridges occurs due to natural disasters, environmental conditions or may be changes takes place under the piers causes loss of connectivity, loss of lives, excessive repairs at times. Therefore it is important to monitor the structural health of river bridges. The major cause of the structural health degradation is scour. This paper consist the various existing scour monitoring techniques. The existing methods for scour monitoring are facing severe problem. Hence in this paper low cost wireless sensor network based solution to monitor the structural health.