Monitoring Bridge Deformation Using Auto-Correlation Adjustment Technique for Total Station Observations

Ashraf Abd El-Wanis Beshr, Mosbeh R. Kaloop

Public Works and Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

DOI: 10.4236/pos.2013.41001                

Abstract

Bridges are omnipresent in every society and they affect its human, social, ecological, economical and cultural aspects. This is why a durable and safe usage of bridges is an imperative goal of structural management. Measurement and monitoring have an essential role in structural management. The benefits of the information obtained by monitoring are apparent in several domains. In deformation analysis, the functional relationship between the acting forces and the resulting deformations should be established. If time depending observations are given, a regression could be used as a functional model. In case of stochastic model uncorrelated observations with identical variance are assumed. Due to the high sampling rate, a small time difference arises between two observations. Thus the assumed stochastic model is not suitable. The calculation has to be effected by means of auto-correlated observations. This paper investigates an integrated monitoring system for the estimation of the deformation (i.e., static, quasi-static) behavior of bridges from total station observations and studies the effect of autocorrelation technique on the accuracy of the estimated parameters and variances. The results have shown that autocorrelation technique is reduced the standard deviation of X&Y-direction about 6.7% to 29.4% and 6.5% to 15.5% of the original value, respectively, but the situation was differ in Z direction; the standard deviation in vertical component Z was increased.

Keywords

Monitoring; Total Station; Auto-Correlation; Bridges; Deformation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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