scholarly journals Novel vibration structural health monitoring technology for deep foundation piles by non‐stationary higher order frequency response function

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Len Gelman ◽  
Ahmet Serhan Kırlangıç
Author(s):  
Naserodin Sepehry ◽  
Firooz Bakhtiari-Nejad ◽  
Mahnaz Shamshirsaz ◽  
Weidong Zhu

One of the main objectives of the structural health monitoring by piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS) using electromechanical impedance method is continuously damage detection applications. In present work impedance method of beam structure is considered and the effect of early crack using breathing crack modeling is studied. In order to model the effect of a crack in beam, the beam is connected with a rotational spring in crack location. The Rayleigh–Ritz method is used to generate ordinary differential equation of cracked beam. Firstly, only open crack is considered that this is leads to linear system equation. In linear system, time domain system equations are converted to frequency domain, and then impedance of PWAS in frequency domain is calculated. Secondly, the breathing crack is modeled to be fully open or fully closed. This phenomenon leads to the nonlinear system equations. These nonlinear equations are solved using pseudo-arc length continuation scheme and collocation method for any harmonic voltage applied to actuator. Then impedance of PWAS is calculated. Two methods are used to detect early crack using breathing crack modeling on PWAS impedance. At the first, frequency response of breathing crack in the frequency range with its sub-harmonics is calculated. Second, only frequency response of one harmonic is computed with its super-harmonics. Finally, the detection method of linear is compared with nonlinear model.


Author(s):  
Naserodin Sepehry ◽  
Firooz Bakhtiari-Nejad ◽  
Weidong Zhu

The structural health monitoring by piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS) using electromechanical impedance method used for monitoring of structure. In present work impedance method of elasto-plastic beam structure is studied. In order to model the effect of a plastic in beam, the moment-curvature relationship for elasto-plastic region for loading and unloading is used. The finite difference method is used to discretize beam with piezoelectric. The piezoelectric actuator is modeled by equivalent moment. Then output current of piezoelectric sensor is calculated. Firstly, elastic modeling of beam is considered that this is leads to linear system equation. In linear system, time domain system equations are calculated and Fourier transform of current output obtained, and then impedance of PWAS in frequency domain is calculated. Secondly, the elasto-plastic of beam is modeled. This phenomenon leads to the nonlinear system equations. These nonlinear equations are solved using finite difference method for any harmonic voltage applied to actuator. Then impedance of PWAS is calculated. Two methods are used to detect elasto-plastic modeling on PWAS impedance. At the first, frequency response of elastic beam as intact model is compared with elasto-plastic results in a desired frequency range. Second, only frequency response of one harmonic is computed with its super-harmonics. Finally, the detection method of linear is compared with nonlinear model.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloi Figueiredo ◽  
Gyuhae Park ◽  
Kevin M. Farinholt ◽  
Charles R. Farrar ◽  
Jung-Ryul Lee

In this paper, time domain data from piezoelectric active-sensing techniques is utilized for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. Piezoelectric transducers have been increasingly used in SHM because of their proven advantages. Especially, their ability to provide known repeatable inputs for active-sensing approaches to SHM makes the development of SHM signal processing algorithms more efficient and less susceptible to operational and environmental variability. However, to date, most of these techniques have been based on frequency domain analysis, such as impedance-based or high-frequency response functions-based SHM techniques. Even with Lamb wave propagations, most researchers adopt frequency domain or other analysis for damage-sensitive feature extraction. Therefore, this study investigates the use of a time-series predictive model which utilizes the data obtained from piezoelectric active-sensors. In particular, time series autoregressive models with exogenous inputs are implemented in order to extract damage-sensitive features from the measurements made by piezoelectric active-sensors. The test structure considered in this study is a composite plate, where several damage conditions were artificially imposed. The performance of this approach is compared to that of analysis based on frequency response functions and its capability for SHM is demonstrated.


2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venu Gopal Madhav Annamdas ◽  
Suresh Bhalla ◽  
Chee Kiong Soh

Asia is the largest and most populous continent in the world with over 45 million square kilometers of land mass and 4.5 billion people. Asia is characterized by numerous densely populated cities. Structural health monitoring is a non-issue for the underdeveloped countries where basic amenities of survival are more important. However, structural health monitoring is crucial for the developing countries, especially those with densely populated cities like Singapore, Mumbai, and Hong Kong, where any infrastructural failure could be devastating to their society and economy. Structural health monitoring of mechanical and aerospace structures is mostly similar worldwide, but of civil infrastructures could vary due to socio-economic, cultural, geographical, and governmental reasons across countries, and even across states within the same country. This article, which is an enhancement to the keynote paper of the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM 2015, Stanford University, USA), presents some of the better known structural health monitoring studies of key civil infrastructures in a few Asian countries. In addition, the authors’ research and applications of structural health monitoring technology carried out at the Nanyang Technological University for civil infrastructures in Singapore are presented. At the end, the authors also discuss recent work on energy harvesting using piezoelectric transducers as an alternative to wired structural health monitoring for automated and self-powered structural health monitoring.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth S. Kessler ◽  
S. Mark Spearing ◽  
Mauro J. Atalla ◽  
Carlos E. S. Cesnik ◽  
Constantinos Soutis

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