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BridgeMon is a research project from the Research for the Benefit of SMEs (Small and Medium size Enterprises)  scheme of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

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News

BridgeMon Project Successfully Completed

 The end of November 2014 sees the completion of the BridgeMon project.

03.12.2014

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Slovene workshop

The Slovene workshop took place on November 25 at ZAG in Ljubljana. 

28.11.2014

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Dutch workshop

The Dutch workshop took place on November 18, 2014, at Rijkswaterstaat WNZ office in Rotterdam. 

21.11.2014

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Case Study in Extending the Life of a Bridge - Fatigue Experiment in the Netherlands

The second work package of BridgeMon, WP2, aimed to develop a technique to accurately monitor the traffic loading on a bridge and calculate the remaining fatigue life. 

19.11.2014

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Polish Workshop

The Polish workshop took place on November 6 at the General Directorate of Polish Railways in Warsaw.

09.11.2014

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Accuracy Class A(5) Achieved with SiWIM®

One of the key objectives of the BridgeMon project was to achieve a step change in accuracy and long term stability of the SiWIM® bridge weigh-in-motion system. 

03.11.2014

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Extending the Life of a Bridge – Harmsenbrug measurements

In the last week of October, 2013, a cable-stayed steel box girder bridge near Rotterdam in the Netherlands was instrumented.

31.05.2014

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BridgeMon at TRA2014 Conference in Paris

The Bridgemon partners presented a poster at the TRA2014 conference in Paris.

04.05.2014

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Instrumentation of three bridges for SiWIM® measurements

Three typical bridges used for bridge WIM measurements were installed to test improvements of the SiWIM® system developed in the BridgeMon project.

06.04.2014

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Bridge WIM temperature calibration

Environmental temperatures heavily affect behaviour of some types of bridges, thus making results of weighing very unstable. In order to provide stable and reliable results, the B-WIM systems must be temperature calibrated.

18.06.2013

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BridgeMon at IABSE Conference in Rotterdam

Bridgemon partners ROD-IS and Cestel prepared a paper on results obtained from simulations carried out as part of the task on ‘Advanced Static Bridge WIM Algorithms’.

06.05.2013

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Installation, measurements and modelling of Nieporet bridge in Poland

As a part of the development of an accurate and cost-effective method of weighing trains in motion for the project partner, Adaptronica from Poland, a typical steel truss bridge was instrumented. 

01.04.2013

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Modelling of Nieporęt Bridge

In order to identify the appropriate instrumentation strategy for the development of a rail Bridge-WIM system, a number of simulations were carried out. In this regard, a finite element model of the bridge was developed.

13.12.2012

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