I don't think the purpose of the proposed system in the article is to get rid of the visual inspection. IMO the writer is corect when he claims there is not enough long-term data acquired with the present maintenance system. The system presented in the article is much cheaper to deploy on a wide...
Well, this article claims that the structural health of a bridge can be evaluated based only on acceleration (vibration) measurement.
This would definitely solve a lot of cost issues about monitoring a large number of existing ageing bridges. But the key question here is if it is actually...
