Bridges That Breathe: Letting Expansion Joints Do the Thinking

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A bridge grows and shrinks with the day. The thesis treats its expansion joints as sensors rather than nuisances, reading temperature, load and fatigue off the way they move, and shows on two footbridges that a joint watched closely tells more about the deck above it than a dozen strain gauges glued to the steel.