Acoustic Emission as a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) method for stay cables: Research into the possibilities of AE for stay cables of cable stayed bridges

The stay cables of the north bridge of the Galecopperbrug are reaching the end of their life span. Rijkswaterstaat, which is responsible for the bridges, needs a reliable Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) method to monitor the current state of the stay cables. At the moment, Rijkswaterstaat experiences issues with defining the state and the...