Application of nonlinear dynamics analysis to damage detection and health monitoring of highway structures

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Livingston ◽  
Shuang Jin ◽  
Dhafer Marzougui
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Dynamics ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Dynamics Analysis

scholarly journals Toward Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures Based on Self-Sensing Concrete Nanocomposites: A Validation in a Reinforced-Concrete Beam

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego L. Castañeda-Saldarriaga ◽  
Joham Alvarez-Montoya ◽  
Vladimir Martínez-Tejada ◽  
Julián Sierra-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Direct Current ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Electrical Resistance ◽  
Concrete Beam ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Beam ◽  
Structural Member ◽  
Rc Beam ◽  
Electric Resistance

AbstractSelf-sensing concrete materials, also known as smart concretes, are emerging as a promising technological development for the construction industry, where novel materials with the capability of providing information about the structural integrity while operating as a structural material are required. Despite progress in the field, there are issues related to the integration of these composites in full-scale structural members that need to be addressed before broad practical implementations. This article reports the manufacturing and multipurpose experimental characterization of a cement-based matrix (CBM) composite with carbon nanotube (CNT) inclusions and its integration inside a representative structural member. Methodologies based on current–voltage (I–V) curves, direct current (DC), and biphasic direct current (BDC) were used to study and characterize the electric resistance of the CNT/CBM composite. Their self-sensing behavior was studied using a compression test, while electric resistance measures were taken. To evaluate the damage detection capability, a CNT/CBM parallelepiped was embedded into a reinforced-concrete beam (RC beam) and tested under three-point bending. Principal finding includes the validation of the material’s piezoresistivity behavior and its suitability to be used as strain sensor. Also, test results showed that manufactured composites exhibit an Ohmic response. The embedded CNT/CBM material exhibited a dominant linear proportionality between electrical resistance values, load magnitude, and strain changes into the RC beam. Finally, a change in the global stiffness (associated with a damage occurrence on the beam) was successfully self-sensed using the manufactured sensor by means of the variation in the electrical resistance. These results demonstrate the potential of CNT/CBM composites to be used in real-world structural health monitoring (SHM) applications for damage detection by identifying changes in stiffness of the monitored structural member.

scholarly journals Magnetostrictive Sensors for Composite Damage Detection and Wireless Structural Health Monitoring

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Zhaoyuan Leong ◽  
William Holmes ◽  
James Clarke ◽  
Akshay Padki ◽  
Simon Hayes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
Composite Damage

Time–frequency and time–scale analyses for structural health monitoring

2006 ◽  
Vol 365 (1851) ◽  
pp. 449-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiesław J Staszewski ◽  
Amy N Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Signal Processing ◽  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Structural Health ◽  
Variant Analysis

Signal processing is one of the most important elements of structural health monitoring. This paper documents applications of time-variant analysis for damage detection. Two main approaches, the time–frequency and the time–scale analyses are discussed. The discussion is illustrated by application examples relevant to damage detection.

Radar-based structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades: The case of damage detection

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Moll ◽  
Philip Arnold ◽  
Moritz Mälzer ◽  
Viktor Krozer ◽  
Dimitry Pozdniakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Turbine Blades ◽  
Heterogeneous Material ◽  
Material System ◽  
Wind Turbine Blades ◽  
Millimetre Wave ◽  
Structural Health

Structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades is challenging due to its large dimensions, as well as the complex and heterogeneous material system. In this article, we will introduce a radically new structural health monitoring approach that uses permanently installed radar sensors in the microwave and millimetre-wave frequency range for remote and in-service inspection of wind turbine blades. The radar sensor is placed at the tower of the wind turbine and irradiates the electromagnetic waves in the direction of the rotating blades. Experimental results for damage detection of complex structures will be presented in a laboratory environment for the case of a 10-mm-thick glass-fibre-reinforced plastic plate, as well as a real blade-tip sample.

Modal Strain Energy Based Damage Detection Applied to a Full Scale Composite Helicopter Blade

2013 ◽  
Vol 569-570 ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Luis Marques dos Santos ◽  
Bart Peeters ◽  
Herman van der Auweraer ◽  
Luiz Carlos Sandoval Góes
Keyword(s):  
Structural Health Monitoring ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Health Monitoring ◽  
Rotor Blade ◽  
Strain Energy ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Main Rotor ◽  
Helicopter Blade ◽  
Main Rotor Blade

The use of composites in the aircraft industry has generated a great need for structural health monitoring and damage detection systems, to allow for safer use of complex materials. Such is the case with helicopter blades - these components nowadays are mostly composed of carbon fiber or glass fiber reinforced plastics laminates, epoxy and honeycomb filled core structures. The use of composite materials on the main rotor blade also allows for more complex and efficient shapes to be designed, but at the same time, their use requires an additional effort when it comes to structural monitoring, since damage can occur and go unnoticed. This work presents experimental results for structural health monitoring method based on strain energy. The test subject is a full-scale composite helicopter main rotor blade, which is a highly flexible, slender beam that can display unusual dynamic behavior with orthotropic behavior. This damage detection method is based on the modal strain properties, and a damage detection index is used to identify and quantify damage. A test setup was built to carry out an experimental modal analysis on the main rotor blade. For that purpose, a total of 55 uniaxial accelerometers were used on the helicopter blade to measure the displacement modes of the structure. To compute the strain modes from the displacement modes, central differences approximation is used. Damage is introduced on the blade by attaching a small mass to two different locations. Experimental results show the possibility of locating damage in this case.

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