US 11,668,623 B2
Movable system for automatically monitoring the correlated wind and temperature field of a bridge
Jin Zhu, Chengdu (CN); Yongle Li, Chengdu (CN); Mengxue Wu, Chengdu (CN); and Xu Huang, Chengdu (CN)
Assigned to Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu (CN)
Filed by Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu (CN); and Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu (CN)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/983,412.
Claims priority of application No. 202111333715.5 (CN), filed on Nov. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0141064 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G01M 5/00 (2006.01); G01W 1/02 (2006.01); G01W 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01M 5/0008 (2013.01) [G01M 5/0075 (2013.01); G01W 1/02 (2013.01); G01W 2001/006 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A movable system for automatically monitoring a correlated wind and temperature field of a bridge, comprising a bridge monitoring subsystem, a cloud server, and a client, wherein
the bridge monitoring subsystem is configured to monitor environmental meteorological parameters of a bridge surface and a temperature change of a bridge structure and is communicatively connected to the cloud server;
wherein the bridge monitoring subsystem comprises a bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module and at least one bridge structure-specific temperature monitoring module;
the bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module is configured to monitor environmental parameters of the bridge surface, and track and monitor wind speed and temperature at a boundary layer whose height changes with the environmental parameters of the bridge surface, and is communicatively connected to the cloud server; and
the at least one bridge structure-specific temperature monitoring module is configured to monitor a temperature of the bridge structure and is communicatively connected to the cloud server;
wherein the bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module comprises a movable platform, a test tower, a top cantilever structure, N upper cantilever structures, M lower cantilever structures, M lower cantilever structure adjustment devices, a solar panel, a solar radiation sensor, a wind temperature sensing unit, a movable platform servo motor, a lead storage battery, and a bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module controller, wherein N and M are positive integers;
the test tower, the movable platform servo motor, the lead storage battery, and the bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module controller are all located on the movable platform and are fixedly connected to the movable platform;
the test tower is sequentially provided with the M lower cantilever structures, the N upper cantilever structures, and the top cantilever structure from bottom to top; the M lower cantilever structures are movably connected to the test tower through the M lower cantilever structure adjustment devices respectively; and the N upper cantilever structures and the top cantilever structure each are fixedly connected to the test tower;
the M lower cantilever structures and the N upper cantilever structures are all single-cantilever structures, and a cantilever end is provided with the wind temperature sensing unit;
the top cantilever structure is a double-cantilever structure, wherein an end of a first cantilever is provided with the solar panel, and an end of a second cantilever is provided with the wind temperature sensing unit; and the top cantilever structure is also provided with the solar radiation sensor;
the solar panel is electrically connected to the lead storage battery, and the lead storage battery is electrically connected to the bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module controller; and
the bridge surface-specific meteorological parameter monitoring module controller is configured to obtain data from the wind temperature sensing unit and the solar radiation sensor, drive the movable platform servo motor and the M lower cantilever structure adjustment devices, and perform data exchange with the cloud server, and is electrically connected to the movable platform servo motor and the M lower cantilever structure adjustment devices separately and communicatively connected to the solar radiation sensor, the wind temperature sensing unit, and the cloud server separately;
wherein the cloud server is configured to analyze the environmental meteorological parameters of the bridge surface and temperature data of the bridge structure to generate a wind profile of a bridge deck and a temperature distribution of the bridge structure, and provide a visualization of atmospheric environmental parameters of a surface of the bridge structure, and is communicatively connected to the client; and
the client is configured to display and store the wind profile of the bridge deck, the temperature distribution of the bridge structure, and visual atmospheric environmental data of the surface of the bridge structure.