Abstract Bridge health assessment is an interdisciplinary area of high socio-economical value. Bridge damage detection technology is one of the most developed technologies today. This paper introduces a new simulation-based damage detection method for reinforced concrete bridge structures using parallel processing. The proposed method takes advantage of vehicle axle loads and high accuracy bridge response from an advanced bridge monitoring system, executes simultaneously variant structural analyses with hypothetical damage assumption to reduce processing duration and improve productivity of damage detection, and utilises the mathematical model of Residual Sum of Squares in the comparison of simulation results and monitoring data to determine the best-fit models. In the case study, seven scenarios are simulated to explore and verify the features of the proposed method. A discussion of perspectives for further implementations completes the paper.

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使用并行仿真进行混凝土桥梁损伤检测

摘要 桥梁健康评估是一个具有很高社会经济价值的跨学科领域。桥梁损伤检测技术是当今最发达的技术之一。本文介绍了一种新的基于仿真的钢筋混凝土桥梁结构损伤检测方法，该方法使用并行处理。所提出的方法利用来自先进桥梁监测系统的车辆轴载和高精度桥梁响应，同时执行具有假设损坏假设的变体结构分析，以减少处理时间并提高损坏检测的效率，并利用残差总和的数学模型。比较模拟结果和监测数据的平方，以确定最佳拟合模型。在案例研究中，模拟了七个场景以探索和验证所提出方法的特征。对进一步实现的观点的讨论完成了本文。