Citation

Rutz FR, Rens KL. J. Perform. Constr. Facil. 2008; 22(1): 2-11.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Society of Civil Engineers)

DOI

10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2008)22:1(2)

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The University of Colorado at Denver has been studying the effect of wind pressure on historic bridges to determine the structural adequacy of these structures. A number of historic bridges have been field instrumented and tested to determine the member forces due to actual lateral wind pressures. This paper focuses on the instrumentation/data collection system developed for the project and field data collection for one bridge. The instrumentation/data collection system needed to be low cost due to the project budget and needed to obtain measurements at a sampling rate sufficiently rapid to capture short-duration wind gusts.