How is the structural integrity of very old buildings, bridges, etc. tested to ensure suitable use by people, cars, etc?
In: Engineering
My job deals with bridges. We instrument the bridge to record it’s behavior then we drive trucks over the bridge with different weights. Then the engineers look at the data and can decide on a load rating for the bridge and it’s health. We’ll do this for any bridge and also long term monitoring on some structures to watch for degradation.
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