To Help Prevent Bridge Collapses, UF Researchers Use AI-Based Digital Twin Technology

This month marks the seventh anniversary of the Florida International University pedestrian bridge collapse in 2018, when a fatal design flaw resulted in the deaths of six people. 

Although bridge collapses in the U.S. occur on average once every year or two, lives will be lost each time and the public will ask, “How could this happen?” But thanks to new AI-based digital twin research at the University of Florida, those questions could be asked far less frequently. 

“We are always asking the question, ‘How can we utilize existing technology to lead to a better quality of life?’” said Aaron Costin, Ph.D., an associate professor in UF’s M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management. “Saving lives is the aim of what we try to do when researching infrastructure.”

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