Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Floods pose a critical threat to bridge infrastructure, which plays an essential role in transportation networks and economic resilience. This review examines state-of-the-art Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies tailored to mitigate flood risks, focusing on their real-world applications...
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| description | Floods pose a critical threat to bridge infrastructure, which plays an essential role in transportation networks and economic resilience. This review examines state-of-the-art Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies tailored to mitigate flood risks, focusing on their real-world applications in flood-prone bridges. A central feature of this review is the extensive use of case studies, illustrating diverse SHM methods applied globally to monitor challenges such as debris accumulation, hydrodynamic forces, and scour—primary causes of bridge failures. These examples provide detailed insights into technologies like sonar-based devices, scour probes, photographic monitoring, rotation- and vibration-based techniques. By showcasing specific case studies—such as bridges monitored using smart magnetic rocks, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), and fibre optic sensors—the review highlights practical outcomes, demonstrating how SHM systems enhance resilience through early detection and predictive maintenance. It also explores the challenges of implementing these systems, including environmental sensitivity, cost, and data complexity, while identifying gaps in integrating hydraulic and structural data for holistic risk assessments. This review advocates for multidisciplinary collaboration and advanced data-driven solutions, such as AI-based predictive maintenance, to address climate change impacts and increasing flood risks. By bridging cutting-edge research with real-world applications, this article provides actionable insights into scalable, adaptive SHM solutions, inspiring engineers and researchers to develop more resilient infrastructure for a changing world. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3fd7e9e2e7884e8c869f5ba6620ee15b2025-08-20T02:12:01ZengF1000 Research LtdOpen Research Europe2732-51212025-03-01510.12688/openreseurope.19232.221477Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]Vanni Nicoletti0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2566-7966Karina Buka-Vaivade1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7296-8158Fabrizio Gara2DICEA—Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 60131, ItalyDICEA—Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 60131, ItalyDICEA—Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 60131, ItalyFloods pose a critical threat to bridge infrastructure, which plays an essential role in transportation networks and economic resilience. This review examines state-of-the-art Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technologies tailored to mitigate flood risks, focusing on their real-world applications in flood-prone bridges. A central feature of this review is the extensive use of case studies, illustrating diverse SHM methods applied globally to monitor challenges such as debris accumulation, hydrodynamic forces, and scour—primary causes of bridge failures. These examples provide detailed insights into technologies like sonar-based devices, scour probes, photographic monitoring, rotation- and vibration-based techniques. By showcasing specific case studies—such as bridges monitored using smart magnetic rocks, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), and fibre optic sensors—the review highlights practical outcomes, demonstrating how SHM systems enhance resilience through early detection and predictive maintenance. It also explores the challenges of implementing these systems, including environmental sensitivity, cost, and data complexity, while identifying gaps in integrating hydraulic and structural data for holistic risk assessments. This review advocates for multidisciplinary collaboration and advanced data-driven solutions, such as AI-based predictive maintenance, to address climate change impacts and increasing flood risks. By bridging cutting-edge research with real-world applications, this article provides actionable insights into scalable, adaptive SHM solutions, inspiring engineers and researchers to develop more resilient infrastructure for a changing world.https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-26/v2Structural Health Monitoring bridge failures resilient infrastructure scour monitoring hydrodynamic monitoring debris impact on bridgeseng |
| spellingShingle | Vanni Nicoletti Karina Buka-Vaivade Fabrizio Gara Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] Open Research Europe Structural Health Monitoring bridge failures resilient infrastructure scour monitoring hydrodynamic monitoring debris impact on bridges eng |
| title | Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full | Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_short | Advancing bridge resilience: a review of monitoring technologies for flood-prone infrastructure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | advancing bridge resilience a review of monitoring technologies for flood prone infrastructure version 2 peer review 2 approved |
| topic | Structural Health Monitoring bridge failures resilient infrastructure scour monitoring hydrodynamic monitoring debris impact on bridges eng |
| url | https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-26/v2 |
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