Application of Piezoelectricity Acceleration Sensor to Dynamic Characteristics Monitoring of Tied Arch Bridge

Abstract

In bridge structural health monitoring, random vibration test and monitoring bridge dynamic characteristics provides an effective method for evaluation of bridge safety and serviceability performance. Piezoelectric accelerometer overcome the draw backs of the traditional sensor characteristic measuring instrument which are functional singleness and monopoly used, a piezoelectricity acceleration sensor performance analysis and dynamic characteristics monitoring system base on a tied arch bridge health monitoring system was designed, and the hardware structure and software of the system were introduced, acquired vibration signal can be displayed, stored, analyzed and processed in real time. The vibration frequency of the bridge structure, mode shapes and damping ratio is calculated base on the monitoring data, and the amplitude of frequency domain shows that the system was validated in actual real-time monitoring of bridge dynamic characteristics.