Advancing Steel Bridges with Innovative Technologies [B11] 2024

Innovative technologies have the potential to revolutionize steel bridge design, analysis, fabrication, inspection, and repair.  This session will explore two emerging technologies that have the potential to impact the steel bridge industry positively.  The first presentation will focus on the use of LiDAR and other scanning technologies for corrosion measurements.  Using the data collected, AI is being trained to estimate the remaining capacity of deteriorated beam ends.  The second presentation explores recent experimental investigations of large-format metallic additive manufacturing (3D printing) for use in the steel bridge industry.  Extensive tensile and impact testing characterized the as-fabricated material performance, while cyclic testing quantified the fatigue performance of machined and as-built surface finishes.

Source: NASCC
Year: 2024

Speaker(s): Aidan Provost, Hannah Kessler