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Click below for the holiday edition of the ISWIM newsletter! #WIM #bridges #tech

🎄Christmas holidays are almost here🎄 Santa Claus dropped by a bit earlier this year and left some gifts for Cestel's children under our Christmas tree! Santa, thank you for your cooperation and understanding of the modern social media principles! #Santa #holidays

A successful installation in Thailand is behind us; together with INFRA PLUS CO., LTD., we instrumented a bridge in the suburb of Bangkok. We would like to thank everyone at Infra Plus for their wonderful hospitality! #bridgeWIM #infrastructure #AmazingThailand

🚀 🌉 Meet Our New PhD Candidate: Mohamad Taghizadeh! We are excited to introduce Mohamad, our new PhD candidate from Iran! Mohamad will carry out his PhD under the supervision of Aleš Žnidarič and Andrej Anžlin at ZAG - Zavod za gradbeništvo Slovenije and under the supervision of Matjaž Skobir at Cestel. He will have the opportunity to be seconded to University of Twente under the supervision of Rolands Kromanis and Andreas Hartmann for further research and training. 🔬📚 Mohamad comes with a robust academic background in Electrical Engineering, holding Bachelor's, Associate's, and Master's degrees from the Iranian University of Science and Technology. His Master’s research focused on utilizing Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, and Machine Learning to tackle computer vision problems, particularly in object detection and segmentation. 🛠️💼 As part of the DC4 PhD project—Advanced Bridge Weigh-in-Motion (B-WIM) Performance Using Vision-Based Data and Machine Learning—Mohamad will apply his expertise in AI and IoT to enhance infrastructure monitoring systems. His research aims to revolutionize mobile crowdsensing techniques to ensure safer, smarter bridges and sustainable urban development. 📣 Stay tuned for more updates about BRIDGTISE project! A BrIM Bites post about cool facts for a bridge is coming soon! #BRIDGITISE #PhD #IoT #MachineLearning #BridgeMonitoring #SmartCities #Infrastructure

Below is the link to the recent webinar on weigh-in-motion organised by ISWIM, Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and FHWA National Highway Institute ⏬ #WIM #infrastructure

Weight is not everything. The small tractor on the left, weighing less than 4 t, caused a larger deflection of the bridge than the heavy 20-ton truck on the right. When we checked the signals from our strain gauge sensors, we probably found the reason why: at this particular bridge, the passage of light vehicles with empty trailers resulted in an incredibly dynamic behavior of the structure—see the comparison of the signals below the photos of the vehicles. This example shows the strength of our Structural Bridge WIM Diagnostic System, where we integrated Dewesoft accelerometers with our bridge WIM system, making it possible for bridge experts to see the complex interraction between the bridge and the moving load in real time. #bridges

One of the outputs of a bridge WIM measurement is the real influence line of the bridge 👇

With the integration of Dewesoft accelerometers into our bridge WIM system, we can now get new insights into the behavior of the bridge. In a recent project, a convoy of four heavy vehicles crossed a bridge in 12 seconds. The passage of these vehicles can clearly be seen in the output of accelerometers - this event caused the largest deflection of the bridge during our one-month measurement, surpassing deflections caused by far heavier vehicles. #SHM #bridges

We are researching something. The flower pot, office adhesive tape, and a 5-kg book will not be part of the end product. They will be optional extras. #research #genious

Slovenia saw its first ❄️ of the season yesterday! Granted, there were only like 32 snowflakes and only in a very small part of the country, which is already known for being pretty small, but it still counts! Also: since we conquered the Ljubljana Marathon last month, we're thinking of going into ski jumping. #snow