GPS Performance Assessment and Analysis, El Carrizo and Juarez Bridge in Sinaloa Mexico

It has been already proved in literature that several approaches using Global Positioning System (GPS) can be intelligently used for the performance evaluation of bridges. This paper focused on GPS, since it naturally produces position estimates as compared to seismic or other instruments that record either velocity or acceleration; and thus, an integration is required. Hence, a research was conducted in order to evaluate the GPS capabilities in extracting the performance of two important bridges located at Sinaloa Mexico: (1) the Juarez Bridge in Culiacan, and (2) El Carrizo Bridge one of the most important bridges constructed in the Mazatlan-Durango federal highway. For the GPS data processing scheme at Juarez Bridge the authors used the traditional DGPS approach, while for El Carrizo Bridge the CSRS-PPP GPS was employed. Based on the data processing, GPS time series were generated for the proper calculation of semi-static and dynamic displacement (≤10cm) for the Juarez Bridge and (≤10mm) for El Carrizo Bridge. In addition, appropriate post-processing filtering was applied to the final displacements.

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