Researchers: Rizwan Khan, Elie Issa
Project Duration: September 2024 – August 2028
Project Partner: Westenberg b.v., Cemosa
Project Description:
BRIDGITISE is a European industrial doctoral network that aims to leverage digital technologies to develop and validate innovative technologies for the cost-effective and sustainable integrity management of bridges. The achievement of this overarching research objective is pursued through the development and validation of innovative technologies to (i) collect bridge information cost-effectively and sustainably, exploiting the possibilities provided by new technologies and maximising their accuracy, precision, spatial coverage, and resolution; (ii) process and share bridge information cost-effectively and sustainably, exploiting and tailoring to bridges the possibilities of artificial intelligence to maximise the speed, reliability, security availability, and usability of the information; (iii) model bridge information reliably to support bridge management strategies, maximising infrastructure functionality, safety, sustainability, and resilience. As network partners, we will work on (i) automating the execution of visual bridge inspections and the classification and visualisation of bridge damages and defects and (ii) developing circularity metrics as decision-support tools for sustainable bridge management.