Abstract: Reliably assessing the condition and safety of suspension bridges poses the problem of determining the remaining strength of bridge cables in their present state. Corrosion of the steel wires, which together comprise the ...

Abstract: Accurately determining the current state of the main cables of a suspension bridge is critical to assessing the safety of the bridge. These cables are composed of thousands of individual bridge wires, each of which ...

Abstract: This paper describes an algorithm that identifies a state-space model and an associated steady-state Kalman filter gain from noise-corrupted input–output data. The model structure involves two Kalman filters where a second ...