published by bpoteet3 on Thu, 08/21/2014 - 14:08
It often takes a basket lift, hammers and chisels, and lots of safety equipment when a work crew inspects one of the nation’s 600,000 bridges.
The federal government requires such analyses every two years for each of those spans, a costly and time-consuming endeavor.
But what if we could install sensors that would deliver data wirelessly on a bridge’s condition, allowing transportation engineers to monitor its health all the time?
