Damage identification of a plane steel truss with incomplete measurements

Hongwei Huang; Jann N. Yang

doi:10.1117/12.847758

1 April 2010 Damage identification of a plane steel truss with incomplete measurements

Hongwei Huang, Jann N. Yang

Proceedings Volume 7647, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2010; 764733 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847758
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The detection of structural damages, either on-line or almost on-line, based on vibration data measured from sensors, is essential for the structural health monitoring system. The problem is quite challenging, in particular when the external excitations are not completely measured and when the structural system is complex. In practical applications, external excitations (inputs), such as seismic excitations, wind loads, traffic loads, etc., may not be measured or may not be measurable, and the structure may not always be shear-beam type which can be easily represented as spring-mass system. In this paper, a newly proposed damage detection method, referred to as the adaptive quadratic sum-squares error with unknown inputs (AQSSE-UI), is used for the detection of structural damages of a plane steel truss with finite element model. In this approach, external excitations and some structural responses may not be measured. Analytical recursive solution for the proposed AQSSE-UI method will be presented. The accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed approach will be demonstrated by numerical simulations where the structure is excited by different external loads. The simulation results indicate that the proposed approach is a viable damage detection technique capable of: (i) identifying structural parameters, (ii) tracking the changes of parameters leading to the detection of structural damages, and (iii) identifying the unknown external excitations.

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Hongwei Huang and Jann N. Yang "Damage identification of a plane steel truss with incomplete measurements", Proc. SPIE 7647, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2010, 764733 (1 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.847758

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Error analysis

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Matrices

Signal to noise ratio

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Structural health monitoring

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