DOI: 10.21949/p5de-e334
title: West Virginia Structural Health Monitoring Project [supporting dataset]

description: Data Management Plan Note: This project has an accompanying Data Management Plan (DMP). This plan has been included as a PDF in this data package, but is also available publicly in the DMPTool Here: https://doi.org/10.48321/D1FW9C

National Transportation Library (NTL) Curation Note: This dataset has been curated to CoreTrustSeal's curation level "A. Active Preservation". To find out more information on CoreTrustSeal's curation levels, please consult their "Curation & Preservation Levels" CoreTrustSeal Discussion Paper" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11476980). NTL staff last accessed this dataset at its repository URL on 2025-04-15. If, in the future, you have trouble accessing this dataset, please email NTLDataCurator@dot.gov describing your problem. NTL staff will do its best to assist you at that time.

Public Access Note: This item is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Use the following citation: 

Foden, Andrew, Lodes, Michael, Dragon, Luke, Abu-Obeidah, Adi and West Virginia Department of Highways. (2025). "West Virginia Structural Health Monitoring Project [supporting dataset]". Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Program. https://doi.org/10.21949/p5de-e334
description: West Virginia Structural Health Monitoring Project is funded by USDOT SMART (Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation) grant to investigate implementation of SHM technology on the East Huntington Bridge. This dataset includes all raw values for five different classes of sensor data available on the structure. Each class of data includes its own ReadMe file describing the structure of how the data is stored, how it can be accessed, and a description of the data types.

The total size of this dataset is over 1.3 GB. The Portable Document Format (PDF) file format was developed by Adobe Systems and represents two-dimensional documents in a device-independent and resolution-independent format. There are PDF readers available on many platforms, such as Xpdf, Foxit, and Adobe's own Adobe Acrobat Reader. PDF readers/viewers or online services for basic functions are generally free (for more information on .pdf files and software, please visit https://www.file-extensions.org/pdf-file-extension). File extension .json is associated to JavaScript Object Notation file format, a lightweight, text-based, language-independent data interchange format. JSON defines a small set of formatting rules for the portable representation of structured data. It is used by various applications as alternative option to XML file format. The data in a json file are stored in simple text file format and the content is viewable in any simple text editor (for more information on .json files and software, please visit https://www.file-extensions.org/json-file-extension). The file extension .md is among others related to texts and source codes in Markdown markup language. Markdown is a lightweight markup language, writen using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then converted to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML) (for more information on .md files and software, please visit https://www.file-extensions.org/md-file-extension). The .csv, Comma Separated Value, file is a simple format that is designed for a database table and supported by many applications. The .csv file is often used for moving tabular data between two different computer programs, due to its open format. The most common software used to open .csv files are Microsoft Excel and RecordEditor, (for more information on .csv files and software, please visit https://www.file-extensions.org/csv-file-extension).