Author(s)

Wenjie Yang ^1,2, Gongxing Yan ³, Wangming Wu ⁴, Xiaoping Zou ¹, Yuhu Sun ⁴

Affiliation(s)

¹ Sichuan Jinghengxin Construction Engineering Testing Co., Ltd, Luzhou, 646000, China
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan, 430205, China
³ School of Intelligent Construction, Luzhou Vocational and Technical College, Luzhou, 646000, China
⁴ Aneng Third Bureau Chengdu Engineering Quality Testing Co., Ltd, Chengdu, 611130, China

Corresponding Author

Gongxing Yan

ABSTRACT

With the increasing expansion and improvement of the transportation network, the durability of bridges, as an important transportation infrastructure connecting urban and rural areas and crossing rivers and canyons, is directly related to the safety of people's lives and properties and the stable development of society. This paper firstly introduces the background and significance of bridge inspection technology in detail, and then deeply analyzes the current problems and challenges in bridge inspection and evaluation. Then, this paper elaborates the research contents and methods of this paper, including the comprehensive and accurate inspection of bridges using advanced inspection technology, the processing and analysis of inspection data using big data and artificial intelligence technology, and the construction of bridge safety assessment model. Through these studies, this paper proposes an efficient bridge inspection and assessment method to provide a strong guarantee for the safe operation of bridges. Through experimental investigation, the accuracy of its bridge inspection technology fluctuates between 93.5% and 98.4%; while the efficiency is always above 80%, which fully demonstrates the high efficiency of ultrasonic technology in bridge inspection. This paper finds that the efficiency and accuracy of bridge inspection can be greatly improved by adopting advanced inspection technology. At the same time, combined with big data and artificial intelligence technology, rapid processing and analysis of bridge inspection data can be realized, providing strong support for bridge safety assessment.

KEYWORDS

Bridge Inspection, Inspection and Evaluation, Development Trend, Current Development

CITE THIS PAPER

Wenjie Yang, Gongxing Yan, Wangming Wu, Xiaoping Zou, Yuhu Sun, The Current Status and Development Trends of Bridge Inspection Technology in Bridge Inspection and Evaluation. Frontiers in Traffic and Transportation Engineering (2024) Vol. 4: 97-105. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/ftte.2024.040112.

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