Sustainable – Monitoring – Maintenance

Bridges and structures (bridges, elevated structures, culverts etc) are critical and expensive assets. Inadequate and improper maintenance of these assets often lead to structural failures. To have a structured maintenance regime within the asset owning institution, the senior and middle level structural engineers need to continuously monitor the structural health of the assets.

This they do, by physical investigation procedures and/or embedding instrumentation into the structure and generating realtime data 24 × 7, and by generating analyses – which lead to inferences such as how structurally intact the asset is and where, when and how much maintenance is required.

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