This paper aims at successive structural damage detection of long-span bridges under changing temperature conditions.First,the frequency-temperature correlation models of bridges are formulated by means of artificial ...This paper aims at successive structural damage detection of long-span bridges under changing temperature conditions.First,the frequency-temperature correlation models of bridges are formulated by means of artificial neural network techniques to eliminate the temperature effects on the measured modal frequencies.Then,the measured modal frequencies under various temperatures are normalized to a reference temperature,based on which the auto-associative network is trained to monitor signal damage occurrences by means of neural-network-based novelty detection techniques.The effectiveness of the proposed approach is examined in the Runyang Suspension Bridge using 236-day health monitoring data.The results reveal that the seasonal change of environmental temperature accounts for variations in the measured modal frequencies with averaged variances of 2.0%.And the approach exhibits good capability for detecting the damage-induced 0.1% variance of modal frequencies and it is suitable for online condition monitoring of suspension bridges.展开更多
A two-step method is proposed for detection and identification of invisible impact damage in composite structure under temperature changes using Lamb waves.First,a statistical outlier analysis is employed to distingui...A two-step method is proposed for detection and identification of invisible impact damage in composite structure under temperature changes using Lamb waves.First,a statistical outlier analysis is employed to distinguish whether the changes of Lamb wave signals are induced by damage within a monitoring area or are only affected by temperature changes.Damage indices are defined after the Lamb wave signals are processed by Fourier transform,and a Monte Carlo procedure is used to obtain the damage threshold value for the damage indices at the undamaged state.If the damage indices in the operation state exceed the threshold value,the presence of damage is determined.Then,a probabilistic damage imaging algorithm displaying probabilities of the presence of damage within the monitoring area is adopted to fuse information collected from multiple actuator-sensor paths to identify the location of damage.Damage indices under damaged state are used to generate the diagnostic image.Experimental study on a stiffened composite panel with random temperature changes is performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
Seismologists have begun to investigate the earthquake damage and assess the economic losses on the spot in the Yunnan area since the earthquakes with M_S6.7 and M_S6.9 that occurred on the boundary between China and ...Seismologists have begun to investigate the earthquake damage and assess the economic losses on the spot in the Yunnan area since the earthquakes with M_S6.7 and M_S6.9 that occurred on the boundary between China and Myanmar west of Menglian county,Yunnan Province,on April 23,1992.From 1992 to 2003,50 destructive earthquakes occurred in Yunnan,and large amounts of data on seismic hazard have been accumulated.With focus on the major building structures,the paper makes statistical analysis on the earthquake damage ratio,loss ratio and seismic hazard index in the areas with different seismic intensity of the 50 events,and presents the seismic hazard matrix of buildings for the Yunnan area.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50725828,50808041)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK2008312)the Ph.D.Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.200802861011)
文摘This paper aims at successive structural damage detection of long-span bridges under changing temperature conditions.First,the frequency-temperature correlation models of bridges are formulated by means of artificial neural network techniques to eliminate the temperature effects on the measured modal frequencies.Then,the measured modal frequencies under various temperatures are normalized to a reference temperature,based on which the auto-associative network is trained to monitor signal damage occurrences by means of neural-network-based novelty detection techniques.The effectiveness of the proposed approach is examined in the Runyang Suspension Bridge using 236-day health monitoring data.The results reveal that the seasonal change of environmental temperature accounts for variations in the measured modal frequencies with averaged variances of 2.0%.And the approach exhibits good capability for detecting the damage-induced 0.1% variance of modal frequencies and it is suitable for online condition monitoring of suspension bridges.
基金Supported by the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(2008ZA52012)the Six Kinds of Excellent Talent Project in Jiangsu Province of China(2010JZ004)the Research Foundation of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(NS2010027)~~
文摘A two-step method is proposed for detection and identification of invisible impact damage in composite structure under temperature changes using Lamb waves.First,a statistical outlier analysis is employed to distinguish whether the changes of Lamb wave signals are induced by damage within a monitoring area or are only affected by temperature changes.Damage indices are defined after the Lamb wave signals are processed by Fourier transform,and a Monte Carlo procedure is used to obtain the damage threshold value for the damage indices at the undamaged state.If the damage indices in the operation state exceed the threshold value,the presence of damage is determined.Then,a probabilistic damage imaging algorithm displaying probabilities of the presence of damage within the monitoring area is adopted to fuse information collected from multiple actuator-sensor paths to identify the location of damage.Damage indices under damaged state are used to generate the diagnostic image.Experimental study on a stiffened composite panel with random temperature changes is performed to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
基金This project was sponsored by the provincial tenth"Five-Year Plan"(Yunnan Provincial Plan2002-54-02-02),China
文摘Seismologists have begun to investigate the earthquake damage and assess the economic losses on the spot in the Yunnan area since the earthquakes with M_S6.7 and M_S6.9 that occurred on the boundary between China and Myanmar west of Menglian county,Yunnan Province,on April 23,1992.From 1992 to 2003,50 destructive earthquakes occurred in Yunnan,and large amounts of data on seismic hazard have been accumulated.With focus on the major building structures,the paper makes statistical analysis on the earthquake damage ratio,loss ratio and seismic hazard index in the areas with different seismic intensity of the 50 events,and presents the seismic hazard matrix of buildings for the Yunnan area.