Fault Identification for Shear-Type Structures Using Low-Frequency Vibration Modes

Shear-type structures are common structural forms in industrial and civil buildings,such as concrete and steel frame structures.Fault diagnosis of shear-type structures is an important topic to ensure the normal use of structures.The main drawback of existing damage assessment methods is that they require accurate structural finite element models for damage assessment.However,for many shear-type structures,it is difficult to obtain accurate FEM.In order to avoid finite elementmodeling,amodel-freemethod for diagnosing shear structure defects is developed in this paper.This method only needs to measure a few low-order vibration modes of the structure.The proposed defect diagnosis method is divided into two stages.In the first stage,the location of defects in the structure is determined based on the difference between the virtual displacements derived from the dynamic flexibility matrices before and after damage.In the second stage,damage severity is evaluated based on an improved frequency sensitivity equation.Themain innovations of this method lie in two aspects.The first innovation is the development of a virtual displacement difference method for determining the location of damage in the shear structure.The second is to improve the existing frequency sensitivity equation to calculate the damage degree without constructing the finite elementmodel.Thismethod has been verified on a numerical example of a 22-story shear frame structure and an experimental example of a three-story steel shear structure.Based on numerical analysis and experimental data validation,it is shown that this method only needs to use the low-order modes of structural vibration to diagnose the defect location and damage degree,and does not require finite element modeling.The proposed method should be a very simple and practical defect diagnosis technique in engineering practice.

基于高次广义柔度灵敏度的结构损伤识别

柔度矩阵可以由结构的低价模态近似计算获得,因此被广泛用于结构的模型修正和损伤识别中.由普通柔度派生而来的广义柔度,可以由低价模态数据更加精确的获得,且随着广义柔度次数的增高其精度越高,往往只需要第一或二阶模态数据即可获得很准确的高次广义柔度.因此,广义柔度灵敏度方法自提出以来受到广泛关注.论文详细研究了基于高次广义柔度灵敏度的损伤识别计算方法,研究中发现,利用广义柔度灵敏度进行损伤识别计算时,并非越高次的广义柔度其识别结果越准确,随着广义柔度次数的增加,损伤识别结果精度呈现出先提高但随后显著降低的趋势.究其原因在于,虽然随着广义柔度次数的增加,广义柔度本身的精度更高,但与之相应的灵敏度方程组系数矩阵的条件数却也显著增大了,即方程组的病态性反而更加严重了,这导致了基于高次广义柔度计算所得的损伤参数的精度反而不如低次广义柔度的情况.因此,论文的研究表明,工程中利用广义柔度进行模型修正或损伤识别时,一般采用一次广义柔度或二次广义柔度即可,且计算中为了克服方程组的病态性和数据噪声的不利影响,论文提出了一种反馈奇异值截断法,能够明显提高计算精度,获得较准确的识别结果.

Damage detection in beam-like structures using static shear energy redistribution

In this study,a static shear energy algorithm is presented for the damage assessment of beam-like structures.According to the energy release principle,the strain energy of a damaged element suddenly changes when structural damage occurs.Therefore,the change in the static shear energy is employed to determine the damage locations in beam-like structures.The static shear energy is derived from the spectral factorization of the elementary stiffness matrix and structural deflection variation.The advantage of using shear energy as opposed to total energy is that only a few deflection data points of the beam structure are required during the process of damage identification.Another advantage of the proposed approach is that damage detection can be performed without establishing a structural finiteelement model in advance.The proposed technique is first validated using a numerical example with single,multiple,and adjacent damage scenarios.A channel steel beam and rectangular concrete beam are employed as experimental cases to further verify the proposed approach.The results of the simulation and experiment examples indicate that the proposed algorithm provides a simple and effective method for defect localization in beam-like structures.