Structural health monitoring and damage evaluation for steel confined reinforced concrete column using the acoustic emission technique

Author(s):  
Fangzhu Du ◽  
Dongsheng Li
Author(s):  
Manindra Kaphle ◽  
Andy Tan ◽  
David Thambiratnam ◽  
Tommy Chan

Managing the sustainability of urban infrastructure requires regular health monitoring of key infrastructure such as bridges. The process of structural health monitoring involves monitoring a structure over a period of time using appropriate sensors, extracting damage sensitive features from the measurements made by the sensors, and analysing these features to determine the current state of the structure. Various techniques are available for structural health monitoring of structures, and acoustic emission is one technique that is finding an increasing use in the monitoring of civil infrastructures such as bridges. Acoustic emission technique is based on the recording of stress waves generated by rapid release of energy inside a material, followed by analysis of recorded signals to locate and identify the source of emission and assess its severity. This chapter first provides a brief background of the acoustic emission technique and the process of source localization. Results from laboratory experiments conducted to explore several aspects of the source localization process are also presented. The findings from the study can be expected to enhance knowledge of the acoustic emission process, and to aid the development of effective bridge structure diagnostics systems.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 897
Author(s):  
Sagar Jinachandran ◽  
Ginu Rajan

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based acoustic emission (AE) detection and monitoring is considered as a potential and emerging technology for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. In this paper, an overview of the FBG-based AE monitoring system is presented, and various technologies and methods used for FBG AE interrogation systems are reviewed and discussed. Various commercial FBG AE sensing systems, SHM applications of FBG AE monitoring, and market potential and recent trends are also discussed.


Author(s):  
Mohsen Ghabdian ◽  
Seyed BB Aval ◽  
Mohammad Noori ◽  
Wael A Altabey

An important and critical area within the broad domain of structural health monitoring, as related to reinforced civil and mechanical structures, is the assessment of creep, shrinkage, and high-temperature effects on reliability and serviceability. Unfortunately, the monitoring and impact of these inherent mechanical characteristics and behaviors, and subsequent impact on serviceability, have rarely been considered in the literature in structural health monitoring. In this paper, the microprestress-solidification creep theory for beams is generalized for the simultaneous effect of linear/nonlinear creep, shrinkage, and high temperature in a reliability framework. This study conducts a systematic time-dependent procedure for the reliability analysis of structures using a powerful nanoscale method. It must be noted that this paper aims to extend the previously developed microprestress-solidification method in a health monitoring reliability-based framework with a close look at a nonlinear creep, parameters affecting creep, and long-time high temperature. A finite element approach is proposed where creep, shrinkage, temperature, and cracking are considered using strain splitting theory. First, the model performance was evaluated by comparing the results with the experimental test available in the literature in the case of creep and shrinkage. Then, the simultaneous effect of creep, shrinkage, and temperature was compared with experimental results obtained by the authors. Reliability analysis was applied to reinforced concrete beams subjected to sustained gravity loading and uniform temperature history in order to calculate exceedance probability in the serviceability limit state. It was found that the exceedance probability of reinforced concrete beams was dependent on the shear span-to-depth ratio. In the serviceability limit state, exceedance probabilities of 0.012 and 0.157 were calculated for the span-to-depth ratios of 1 and 5, respectively. In addition, it was shown that temperature plays an important role in the reliability of reinforced concrete beams. A 4.27-fold increase was observed in the case of moderate to high temperature. Finally, for three different load levels of 40%, 70%, and 80%, the exceedance probabilities were 0.156, 0.328, and 0.527, respectively, suggesting that load level is another key parameter affecting the reliability of reinforced concrete beams. It is thus concluded these fundamental phenomenological studies should be further considered as part of the broad field of structural health monitoring.


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