Monitoring and testing of a new stone masonry arch bridge in Vila Fria, Portugal

• Author(s): António Arêde ; Pedro Miguel Costa ; Aníbal Costa ; Cristina Costa ; Luís Noites
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/67524
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Ciências Tecnológicas; Engenharia; Engenharia civil; Engenharia estrutural
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This paper reports on the monitoring and load testing of a new stone masonry arch bridge recently built over the river Vizela in Vila Fria, Felgueiras, located about 60 km from Porto, Portugal. Besides highlighting the scientific purposes subjacent to this bridge construction initiative, the paper addresses basic aspects on the installed instrumentation and provides a general overview of sensor types, location and measured signals, as well as data acquisition and transmission systems. Some of the most relevant result measurements obtained from the load test and their comparison with available numerical analyses are also presented.