STUDY ON SCOUR EVALUATION METHOD OF PIER BASED ON VIBRATION MODE

Abstract

Sometimes high water flow scours bridge piers to reduce safety of bridge. To keep safety, suitable inspection is required. Unfortunately, it is difficult to inspect all bridges because a local government has many bridges and does not have enough inspectors. So, a reliable monitoring system should be developed. In this paper, a new inspection technique estimating amplitude ratio as a index of scour was proposed and tested at a existing bridge. We installed vibration sensors on two piers and checked its difference between two piers. Finally,our experiment showed good correlation between reduction of amplitude ratio and scour.