A digital twin of the world’s first 3D printed steel bridge

Measuring, monitoring, and analysing the performance of the world’s largest 3D-printed metal structure

Researchers are measuring, monitoring, and analysing the performance of the world’s largest 3D printed metal structure: a 12 metre-long stainless steel bridge. Data from a sensor network installed on the bridge is being inputted into a ‘digital twin’ of the bridge which acts as a living computer model that imitates the physical bridge with growing accuracy in real time as the data comes in.