Institut Teknologi Bandung

This competition is one of the ITB Civil Engineering Expo (ICEE) 2024 events that was held with the theme "Ensuring Bridge Resilience through Advanced Monitoring Technology". The winning team consists of Felix Setiawan (SI 20'), Satria Widiantoro (SI 20'), and Elga Arsia Ikram Ramdani (SI 20').

Team Leader, Felix Setiawan, explained that IBDC 2024 is a competition for design and sketches of bridges with steel frame types, the core of which focuses on monitoring design to ensure the durability and strength of bridges in the future.

According to him, this issue is unique and challenging because of the current application of monitoring bridges concept in the field that is still quite difficult to implement due to many limitations.

"One of the ideas we offer in this competition is to install the Structural Health Monitoring System (SHMS) sensor in the right and efficient location, which is inside the bridge structure," he stated.

"This is important because the critical point of the bridge deformation will determine the behavior of the bridge structure and from these data, we can find out the ‘health’ condition of the bridge," he continued.

To apply the idea, Felix and team designed a bridge with Warren Truss's Camelback configuration. They chose this type of bridge mainly because of the efficiency considerations from the design aspect. Not only that, the use of SHMS on the bridge will be integrated with a SHMS software so that the bridge monitoring process can be done easily and efficiently.

"The integration of SHMS sensors and software is a follow-up stage of the idea we designed so that the data from these sensors can be analyzed and evaluated directly by users. This device will facilitate users in seeing the current condition of the bridge. Some of the features we added in this tool are data acquisition, data filtering, and machine learning," Felix explained.

Another member, Elga Arsia, said that during the IBDC 2024 competition, he and his team encountered various obstacles. Starting from the complexity of the material tested, limited funds in the process of making a real bridge model, and ensuring the suitability of theoretical design with the original bridge built during the competition. However, in the end, they overcame all these problems.

"Cooperation, maintaining commitment, and communication between team members are part of the efforts we made so that this competition can run smoothly as we expected," he said.

"In addition to that, determination to learn new things is also important in the competition because in-lecture knowledge is not enough to answer specific problems given, so it is very important to ensure these characteristics are deeply implanted in each team member," concluded Elga.

Reporter: Nur Rama Adamas (Civil Engineering, 2020)
Translator: Kezia Hosana
Editor: Ayesha Lativa Mafaza (Postharvest Technology, 2021)