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The purpose and significance of bridge health monitoring is described in this paper. Principle of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and concept of shape factor are introduced. In order to study bridge health monitoring, Firstly, a finite element model for simply supported steel beam is set up on the basis of the Infinite Element Theory and the software ANSYS in response to laboratory experiment....