National Consortia on Remote Sensing in Transportation (NCRST)

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• Task 1: Project Administration
• Task 2: Bridge Condition Characterization
• Task 3: Commercial Sensor Evaluation
• Task 4: Decision Support System
• Task 5: Field Demonstration
• Task 6: Assessment

Tasks and Deliverables

• Task 1: Project Administration
• Deliverable 1-A: Quarterly Reports - See Technical Advisory Committee Page
• Deliverable 1-B: Final Report

Papers and Presentations:
• Decision support system for integrating remote sensing in bridge condition assessment and preservation - Paper


• Measuring and Communicating Bridge Performance with Remote Sensing Technologies (TRB 2012) - Presentation


• Implementation of the Digital Image Correlation Method as a Bridge Condition Assessment & Bridge Performance Measurement Tool (TRB 2012) - Presentation


• Integration of Tranditional and Non-Traditional Remote Sensing Bridge Condition Asessment. T. Ahlborn, D. Harris, C. Brooks, L. Sutter. 5th International Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure Conference. Cancun, Mexico. December 13, 2011. - Presentation


• "Assessing Bridge Condition using Remote Sensing," Pecora 18 Remote Sensing Symposion, Nov. 14-17, 2011 in Herndon, VA


• Integration of Traditional Remote Sensing into a Framework for Structural Health Monitoring. D. Harris, T. Ahlborn, L. Sutter, C. Brooks. American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fall Convention. Cincinnati, OH. October 2011.


• "Measuring and Communicating Bridge Performance with Remote-Sensing Technologies" - Transportation Research Board 2012 Conference - Abstract


• Vaghefi et al. "Application of Thermal IR Imagery for Concrete Bridge Inspection" - Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Convention and National Bridge Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 22-26, 2011 - Paper


• Evaluation of Commercially Available Remote Sensors for Highway Bridge Condition Assessment (2011) - Read at Journal of Bridge Engineering


• NSBE National Convention Technical Research Exhibition Presentation (March 25, 2011) - Download


• Michigan Bridge Conference (March 23, 2011) - Download


• 2010 ASNT "NDE/NDT for Highways and Bridges" - Presentation, Paper


• August 2010 Bridge Conference Poster - Download


• 2010 AASHTO T-10 Meeting at PCI - Presentation


• September 14, 2010 Poster for Michigan Tech - Download


• TRB Annual Meeting (2011) Workshop - Download


• TRB Annual Meeting (2011) Session AFF30 - Download

Technical Memos:
• Technical Memorandum No. 1
      - Technical Advisory Council
• Technical Memorandum No. 2
      - TAC Meeting
• Technical Memorandum No. 3
      - State of the Practice Synthesis
• Technical Memorandum No. 2 (Revised)
      - Initial TAC Meeting Announcement and Confirmed Membership
• Technical Memorandum No. 4
      - State of the Practice Synthesis
• Technical Memorandum No. 5
      - Laboratory Work Plan and Specimen Fabrication
• Technical Memorandum No. 6
      - Progress-to-Date on the Sensor Evaluation
• Technical Memorandum No. 7
      - Defining the Laboratory Testing Progress
• Technical Memorandum No. 8
      - Structural Modeling Development
• Technical Memorandum No. 9
      - Commercial Sensor Evaluation Report
• Technical Memorandum No. 10
      - Development of the Decision Support System
• Technical Memorandum No. 11
      - Laboratory Study Progress
• Technical Memorandum No. 12
      - Structural Modeling
• Technical Memorandum No. 13
      - TAC Update
• Technical Memorandum No. 14
      - DSS Update
• Technical Memorandum No. 15
      - Lab Study Progress Update
• Technical Memorandum No. 16
      - Integration of Bridge Health Indicators into DSS
• Technical Memorandum No. 17
      - DSS Decision Criteria and Development of Mobile Version
• Technical Memorandum No. 18
      - Site Identification Update
• Technical Memorandum No. 19
      - Lab Progress: Structural Model Response
• Technical Memorandum No. 20
      - Field Deployment, Instrument Installation, Calibration Plan
• Technical Memorandum No. 21
      - Summary of field demonstration including sensor evaluation and update of the DSS
• Technical Memorandum No. 22
      - Technical assessment and economic valuation update
• Technical Memorandum No. 23
      - Deliverables and Final Project Outline
• Technical Memorandum No. 24
      - Update Relating Technologies and DSS to Health Indicators
• Technical Memorandum No. 25
      - Update on the Economic Valuation of Technologies and DSS


• Task 2: Bridge Condition Characterization
• Deliverable 2-A: State of the Practice Synthesis Report - Download
• Deliverable 2-B: Laboratory Testing and Simulations Findings Report
• Deliverable 2-C: Models, simulations, and data on remote sensing response to bridge characteristics


• Task 3: Commercial Sensor Evaluation
• Deliverable 3-A: Report detailing results of commercial sensor evaluation including describing which sensors can perform most efficiently on measuring high-priority bridge condition characteristics - Download


• Task 4: Decision Support System
• Deliverable 4-A: Demonstration Decision Support System (DSS) available to project stakeholders through a secure web portal
• Deliverable 4-B: Report summarizing the DSS including descriptions of its components, how it integrates sensed and historical data to support bridge assessment, the algorithms and models it applies, how they were developed, and how the DSS could be moved towards operational status


• Task 5: Field Demonstration
• Deliverable 5-A: Report summarizing the field demonstration results of remote sensing applications for bridge condition assessment on two selected bridges
• Factsheet on the 3D Optical Bridge-evaluation System (3DOBS) - Download


• Task 6: Assessment
• Deliverable 6-A: Report summarizing the results of the technical assessment and evaluation
• Deliverable 6-B: Report detailing the results of the economic evaluation