ABSTRACT
Majority of nations are spending a considerable part of their maintenance budget allocated for construction industry for retrofitting. This situation indicates there is an immediate need for establishment of an efficient health monitoring system. It is a well-known fact that the establishment of a health monitoring system is expensive in the installation stage, but economical in the long run from the perspective of preventive maintenance. Hence, the implementation of the health monitoring system on the bridge has adopted a systematic approach which includes optimization of sensors (triaxial accelerometers), establishment of a real time data acquisition and analysis by installing the LabVIEW based program for the same in the real time controller and validation of the results.
