University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated

Florida Department of Transportation

Rodrigo Herrera

Michael McVay

Khiem Tat Tran

Peter Lai

Systems and methods are provided for dynamically determining a static tip resistance of a dynamically-loaded component having a tip. One example method comprises receiving gauge data from one or more gauges associated with the component proximate the tip. The gauge data may represent measurements related to one or more impacts on the component. The example method may further comprise determining measured data and estimated data corresponding to the one or more impacts on the component based at least in part on the gauge data. Furthermore, the method may comprise performing an inversion to select the estimated data having the least amount of difference in comparison to the measured data. The method may also comprise determining the static tip resistance based at least in part on the selected estimated data.

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Tallahassee, FL, United States of America

Rodrigo Herrera