“There are more than 100 individual gauges on the bridge,” said Justin Dahlberg, a research engineer for the Bridge Engineering Center, a part of Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation. Those sensors will provide a tremendous amount of quantitative information about the bridge’s performance and condition, said Brent Phares, the interim director of the Bridge Engineering Center. It’s a model that could be used for other new bridges, including much larger ones.
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