A Digital Twin for the Clifton Suspension Bridge

Date : Wednesday 10th February, 7:30pm

Speaker :Sam Gunner, Research Asssociate, Bristol University

The UK has a problem. Much of its civil infrastructure (bridges, roads, sewers etc.) is now extremely old, and operating well outside its original design brief.

A technology that is seen as having real potential for assisting infrastructure operation is the ‘Digital Twin’, a simulation of a real object or system, that is continually updated to reflect changes in that object. The real object is monitored, and this monitoring data is used to automatically adjust the model. 

In this talk I will present our plans for a Digital Twin for Bristol’s iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge.

 

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