scholarly journals Fatigue Damage Assessment for Concrete Structures Using a Frequency-Domain Method

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hongyan Ding ◽  
Qi Zhu ◽  
Puyang Zhang

A fatigue damage assessment for concrete was carried out according to Eurocode 2. Three frequency-domain methods, the level crossing counting (LCC) method, the range counting (RC) method, and a new proposed method, were used for the damage assessment. The applicability of these frequency-domain methods was evaluated by comparison with the rainflow counting method in the time domain. A preliminary numerical study was carried out to verify the applicability of the frequency-domain methods for stress processes with different bandwidths; thus, the applicability of the LCC method and the new method was preliminarily confirmed. The fatigue strength of concrete had a minor effect on the fatigue damage assessment. The applicability of the LCC and the new methods deteriorated for relatively low coefficients of variance of the stress process because the ultimate number of constant amplitude cycles was sensitive to the range of the cycles. The validity of the joint probability functions of the two methods was proven using a numerical simulation. The integration intervals of the two frequency-domain methods were varied to estimate the lower and upper bounds on the fatigue damage, which can serve as references to evaluate the accuracy of the time-domain method results.

2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (A) ◽  
pp. 274-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaogu Zheng ◽  
James Renwick

The advantages and limitations of frequency domain and time domain methods for estimating the interannual variability arising from day-to-day weather events are summarized. A modification of the time domain method is developed and its application in examining a precondition for the frequency domain method is demonstrated. A combined estimation procedure is proposed: it takes advantage of the strengths of both methods. The estimation procedures are tested with sets of synthetic data and are applied to long time series of three meteorological parameters. The impacts of the different methods on tests of potential long-range predictability for seasonal means are also discussed.


Author(s):  
Ziying Wu ◽  
Hongzhao Liu ◽  
Lilan Liu ◽  
Pengfei Li ◽  
Daning Yuan

This paper describes two approaches for the simultaneous identification of the coulomb and viscous parameters in kinematical joints. One is a time-domain method (TDM) and the other is a frequency-domain method (FDM). Simulation shows that both of the two methods have good performances in identifying friction at high SNR (90dB). But at low SNR (20dB), the estimation accuracy of the frequency-domain method is higher than that of the time-domain method. A field experiment employing a linkage mechanism driven by motor is also carried out. The experimental results obtained by the two approaches are almost identical under different experiment conditions. It has been concluded that the presented identification methods of friction in kinematical joints are correct and applicable.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 221-225
Author(s):  
Zhi Wei Lin ◽  
Li Da ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Wei Han ◽  
Fan Lin

The real-time pitch shifting process is widely used in various types of music production. The pitch shifting technology can be divided into two major types, the time domain type and the frequency domain type. Compared with the time domain method, the frequency domain method has the advantage of large shifting scale, low total cost of computing and the more flexibility of the algorithm. However, the use of Fourier Transform in frequency domain processing leads to the inevitable inherent frequency leakage effects which decrease the accuracy of the pitch shifting effect. In order to restrain the side effect of Fourier Transform, window functions are used to fall down the spectrum-aliasing. In practical processing, Haimming Window and Blackman Window are frequently used. In this paper, we compare both the effect of the two window functions in the restraint of frequency leakage and the performance and accuracy in subjective based on the traditional phase vocoder[1]. Experiment shows that Haimming Window is generally better than Blackman Window in pitch shifting process.


Author(s):  
M. T. Rahmati ◽  
L. He ◽  
D. X. Wang ◽  
Y. S. Li ◽  
R. G. Wells ◽  
...  

An unsteady Navier-Stokes solution system for aeromechanical analysis of multiple blade row configurations is presented. A distinctive feature of the solver is that unified numerical methods and boundary condition treatments are consistently used for both a nonlinear time-domain solution mode and a frequency-domain one. This not only enables a wider range of physical aeromechanical problems to be tackled, but also provides a consistent basis for validating different computational models, identifying and understanding their relative merits and adequate working ranges. An emphasis of the present work is on a highly efficient frequency-domain method for multi-row aeromechanic analysis. With a new interface treatment, propagations and reflections of pressure waves between adjacent blade rows are modeled within a domain consisting of only a single passage in each blade row. The computational model and methods are firstly described. Then, extensive validations of the frequency-domain method against both experimental data and the nonlinear time-domain solutions are described. Finally the computational analysis and demonstration of the intra-row reflection effects on the rotor aerodynamic damping are presented.


Author(s):  
Safia Abdullah Al Fadhel, Amal Al-Ser Al-khadir, Obeid Mahmo

:   This paper takes into account the application of the Periodogram and the Fourier Series Analysis. It is one of the non-parametric methods of Frequency domain analysis or spectral analysis of time series using Gas sales data in the United States of America from 1993-2014. In order to achieve these objectives، the data were obtained and then the Periodogram and the Fourier series methods were used to analyze the data. Based on the analysis، the cycle of variability within the period under study was 135 months، and a high Accuracy data model was estimated for the Fourier series which included trend، seasonal and error components. The RMSE، MASE and MAE standards were used to confirm the efficiency of the model and the model was then used to predict gas sales for six months، and we have 90% 95% confidence intervals for predictions. In addition، a time domain analysis was provided for the data series using Bok Jenkins method to obtain the appropriate ARMA model and to generate Predictions. Finally، a comparison was made between the accuracy measures of the time domain and frequency domain methods The frequency domain method competed with the time domain and the slight difference in efficiency.


2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 720-723
Author(s):  
Mao Xing Wei ◽  
Zhi Gang Bai

The present frequency domain method of calculating wave power may not be accurate enough for calculating the incident wave power of a specific site, which is primary measurement for evaluating the efficiency of wave energy converters (WECs) and an alternative measure, the time domain method, is proposed. Three sites including two nearshore sites and one deepwater site at Chengshantou sea area were selected, and a sample wave parameters data set was obtained from wave model SWASH to demonstrate the application of these two methods. A comparison of the results of each method was also performed and two influential parameters used in calculation were analyzed. The results show that frequency domain method is very likely to overestimate the wave power at both deepwater and nearshore site. The time domain method proposed in this paper is believed to be more superior in calculating the incident wave power during a short term.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Rahmati

Unsteady flow around an oscillating plate cascade and that through a single compressor rotor subject to vibration have been computationally studied, aimed at examining the predictive ability of two low fidelity frequency methods compared with a high fidelity time-domain solution method for aeroelasticity. The computational solutions demonstrate the capabilities of the frequency domain methods compared with the nonlinear time-domain solution method in capturing small perturbations in the unsteady flow. They also show the great advantage of significant CPU time saving by the frequency methods over the nonlinear time method. Comparisons of two different frequency methods, nonlinear harmonic and phase solution method, show that these methods can produce different results due to the differences in numeric and physical conditioning. The results obtained using phase solutions method are in better agreement with the nonlinear time-domain solution. This is because the same numeric and physical conditioning are used in both the nonlinear time-domain method and phase solution frequency domain method.


2013 ◽  
Vol 136 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Rahmati ◽  
L. He ◽  
D. X. Wang ◽  
Y. S. Li ◽  
R. G. Wells ◽  
...  

An unsteady Navier–Stokes solution system for aeromechanical analysis of multiple blade row configurations is presented. A distinctive feature of the solver is that unified numerical methods and boundary condition treatments are consistently used for both a nonlinear time-domain solution mode and a frequency-domain one. This not only enables a wider range of physical aeromechanical problems to be tackled, but also provides a consistent basis for validating different computational models, identifying and understanding their relative merits and adequate working ranges. An emphasis of the present work is on a highly efficient frequency-domain method for multirow aeromechanical analysis. With a new interface treatment, propagations and reflections of pressure waves between adjacent blade rows are modeled within a domain consisting of only a single passage in each blade row. The computational model and methods are firstly described. Then, extensive validations of the frequency-domain method against both experimental data and the nonlinear time-domain solutions are described. Finally, the computational analysis and demonstration of the intrarow reflection effects on the rotor aerodynamic damping are presented.


2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (A) ◽  
pp. 274-288
Author(s):  
Xiaogu Zheng ◽  
James Renwick

The advantages and limitations of frequency domain and time domain methods for estimating the interannual variability arising from day-to-day weather events are summarized. A modification of the time domain method is developed and its application in examining a precondition for the frequency domain method is demonstrated. A combined estimation procedure is proposed: it takes advantage of the strengths of both methods. The estimation procedures are tested with sets of synthetic data and are applied to long time series of three meteorological parameters. The impacts of the different methods on tests of potential long-range predictability for seasonal means are also discussed.


Author(s):  
Marit I. Kvittem ◽  
Torgeir Moan

The current paper addresses a study of a semi-submersible wind turbine, where tower base bending moments and short term tower fatigue damage was estimated by a frequency domain method assuming two-dimensional platform motions. Both a rigid structure assumption and a generalised degree of freedom model for including the first flexible mode of the turbine were investigated. First, response wind- and wave loads were considered separately, then superposition was used to find the response to combined wind and wave loading. The bending moments and fatigue damage obtained by these methods were compared to results from a fully coupled, non-linear time domain analyses. In this study a three column, catenary moored semi-submersible with the NREL 5MW turbine mounted on one of the columns was modelled. The time domain simulation tool used was Simo-Riflex-AeroDyn from Marintek and CeSOS. The frequency domain method accounting for a flexible turbine gave a good representation of the tower base bending moment histories for the moderate sea states in these analyses, also for the combined wind and wave analyses. The frequency domain fatigue damage predictions were underestimated by 0–60%, most likely due to the exponential relationship between damage and stress amplitude.


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