基于振动与静载试验的桥梁结构损伤识别法

以桥梁结构有限元为工具,把当前结构模型中各单元的等效面积、惯性矩以及板壳单元的厚度作为识别参数{p},建立识别参数对于各种量测的灵敏度矩阵[S{p}]。同时以测取的结构某些部位的位移、应变以及低阶的振动模态参数为基准,与原先结构的分析结果进行比较建立综合误差向量{ΔE}。通过优化方法不断调整当前计算模型的参数{ΔP}使结构响应与相应的试验值最大程度地吻合({ΔE}小到一定量级),从而得到结构参数变化的信息。以此为基础即可实现桥梁结构的损伤判别以及承载能力的评估。

Damage Identification in Footbridges from Natural Frequency Measurements

The present study aims to develop a robust structural damage identification method that can be used for the evaluation of bridge structures. An approach for the structural damage identification based on the measurement of natural frequencies is presented. The structural damage model is assumed to be associated with a reduction of a contribution to the element stiffness matrix equivalent to a scalar reduction of the material modulus. A computational procedure for the direct iteration technique based on the non-linear perturbation theory is proposed to identify structural damage. The presented damage identification technique is applied to the footbridge over the Slunjcica River near Slunj to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Using a limited number of measured natural frequencies, reduction in the stiffness of up to 100% at multiple sites is detected. The results indicate that the proposed approach can be successful in not only predicting the location of damage but also in determining the extent of structural damage.

An Application of Damage Detection Methods to A Real World Structure Subjected to Ground Motion Excitation

This paper aims at investigating the efficacy of different state-of-art damage detection methods when applied to real worm structures subjected to ground motion excitations, for which the literature contributions are, at present, still not fully comprehensive. To this purpose the paper analyses two test structures： （1） a four-story scaled steel frame tested on a shake table in a controlled laboratory conditions, and （2） a seven-story reinforced concrete building monitored during the seismic excitations of the 1999 Chi-Chi （Taiwan） Earthquake main shock and numerous fore and afiershocks. Some model based damage approaches and statistics based damage indexes are reviewed. The different methodologies and indexes are, then, applied to the two test structures with the final aim of analysing their performance and validity within the case of a laboratory scaled model and a real world structure subjected to input ground motion.

Substructure isolation and damage identification using free responses

Structural health monitoring （SHM） has become a hot and intensively researched field in civil engineering. Thereinto, damage identification play an important role in maintaining structural integrity and safety. Many effective methods have been proposed for damage identification. However, accurate global identification of large real-world structures is not easy due to their com- plex and often unknown boundary conditions, nonlinear components, insensitivity of glohal response to localized damages, etc. Furthermore, global identification often requires lots of sensors and involves large number of unknowns. This is costly, rarely feasible in practice, and usually yields severely ill-conditioned identification problems. Substructuring approach is a possible solution： substructuring methods can focus on local small substructures; they need only a few sensors placed on the substruc- ture and yield smaller and numerically much more feasible identification problems. This paper proposed an improved sub- structure method using local free response for substructure damage identification. The virtual supports are constructed by Sub- structure Isolation Method （SIM） using the linear combination of the substructural responses. The influence of the global errors is isolated by adding the virtual supports on the main degree of freedoms （DOFs） of the substructure. Through the correlation analysis, the substructural modes are selected and used for damage identification of the substructure. A plain model of cable stayed bridge is used for the verification of the proposed method.