scholarly journals Vibration-Based Damage Detection in Beams by Cooperative Coevolutionary Genetic Algorithm

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 624949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kittipong Boonlong

Vibration-based damage detection, a nondestructive method, is based on the fact that vibration characteristics such as natural frequencies and mode shapes of structures are changed when the damage happens. This paper presents cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithm (CCGA), which is capable for an optimization problem with a large number of decision variables, as the optimizer for the vibration-based damage detection in beams. In the CCGA, a minimized objective function is a numerical indicator of differences between vibration characteristics of the actual damage and those of the anticipated damage. The damage detection in a uniform cross-section cantilever beam, a uniform strength cantilever beam, and a uniform cross-section simply supported beam is used as the test problems. Random noise in the vibration characteristics is also considered in the damage detection. In the simulation analysis, the CCGA provides the superior solutions to those that use standard genetic algorithms presented in previous works, although it uses less numbers of the generated solutions in solution search. The simulation results reveal that the CCGA can efficiently identify the occurred damage in beams for all test problems including the damage detection in a beam with a large number of divided elements such as 300 elements.

Author(s):  
Jitti Pattavanitch ◽  
Puttha Jeenkour ◽  
Kittipong Boonlong

Vibration-based damage detection is based on the fact that vibration characteristics such as natural frequencies and mode shapes of structures are changed when the damage occurs. This paper proposes dynamic species-size strategy in cooperative coevolution concept. The resulting algorithm, cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithm with dynamics species-size (CCGADSS), is used as the optimization algorithm in the vibration-based damage detection in plates. The objective function is numerically calculated from the difference between experimentally vibration characteristics and numerically evaluated vibration characteristics of the predicted damage. In finite element model for objective calculation, the plates are equally divided into 64 elements. There are 2 different cases with dissimilar occurred damage in plates are considered. In first case, the plate hase only one region consisting of 4 elements which are together connected and have same damage. In second case, there are 5 separated elements which are damaged differently. In order to demonstrate the performance of the dynamic species-size strategy, 3 optimization algorithms, which are genetic algorithm (GA), cooperative coevolutionary genetic algorithm (CCGA), and CCGADSS. The results indicate that CCGADSS is superior to GA and CCGA. Moreover solutions obtained using CCGADSS are quite close the actual damage. These results show that the dynamic species-size strategy can enhance performance of cooperative coevolution concept.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (20) ◽  
pp. 3923-3936 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Jaeyong Choi ◽  
Jae-Hung Han

This article proposes a method for damage detection using vision-based monitoring with motion magnification technique. The methods based on the vibration characteristics of structures such as natural frequency, mode shapes, and modal damping have been applied to structural damage detection. However, the conventional methods have limitations for practical applications. Vision-based monitoring system can be employed as a new structural monitoring system because of its simplicity, potentially low cost, and unique capability of collecting high-resolution data. A methodology called video motion magnification has been developed to amplify non-visible small motions in a video to reveal the dynamic response. The video motion magnification method can be applied to measure small displacements to calculate the natural frequencies and the operational deflection shapes of the structures. Unlike conventional optimization methods, a genetic algorithm explores the entire solution space and can obtain the global optimum. In this article, identification of the location and magnitude of damage in a cantilever beam is formulated as an optimization problem using a real-value genetic algorithm by minimizing the objective function, which directly compares the first three natural frequencies changes from the phase-based motion magnification measurement and from the analytical model of a damaged cantilever beam.


1999 ◽  
Vol 386 ◽  
pp. 233-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. PORTER ◽  
D. V. EVANS

Rayleigh–Bloch surface waves are acoustic or electromagnetic waves which propagate parallel to a two-dimensional diffraction grating and which are exponentially damped with distance from the grating. In the water-wave context they describe a localized wave having dominant wavenumber β travelling along an infinite periodic array of identical bottom-mounted cylinders having uniform cross-section throughout the water depth. A numerical method is described which enables the frequencies of the Rayleigh–Bloch waves to be determined as a function of β for an arbitrary cylinder cross-section. For particular symmetric cylinders, it is shown how a special choice of β produces results for the trapped mode frequencies and mode shapes in the vicinity of any (finite) number of cylinders spanning a rectangular waveguide or channel. It is also shown how one particular choice of β gives rise to a new type of trapped mode near an unsymmetric cylinder contained within a parallel-sided waveguide with locally-distorted walls. The implications for large forces due to incident waves on a large but finite number of such cylinders in the ocean is discussed.


Author(s):  
J. W. Xing ◽  
G. T. Zheng

As highly sensitive to structural parameter variations, it is necessary to study relations between derivatives of displacement modes and structural design parameters. This paper proposes an integral technique for obtaining the analytical solutions of slope and curvature modes of arbitrary cross-section inhomogeneous cantilever beam. The method is validated by comparing the computation results of modal frequencies and shapes with both numerical and analytical solutions. Furthermore, based on the presented method, we have established explicit expressions for the structural parameters sensitivity of the slope/curvature mode shapes. An example of parameter design is also presented for a cantilever beam with the proposed sensitivity analysis method.


Author(s):  
Mahendran Govindasamy ◽  
Chandrasekaran Kesavan ◽  
Malhotra Santkumar

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the dynamics-based techniques for damage detection in laminated composite cantilevered rectangular plates and cylindrical shells with damages in the form of surface macro-level cracks using finite element analysis (FEA). However, the quantitative change in global vibration characteristics is not sufficiently sensitive to local structural damages especially to small size damages. Hence certain parameters called damage indicators based on mode shape curvature, which are the second derivatives of the vibration characteristics (mode shapes), are used in this study to detect the location and size of even small damages accurately in laminated composite structures. The commercial FEA package ANSYS is used for the theoretical modal analysis to generate the natural frequencies and normalized mode shapes of the intact and damaged structures. Experimental investigations are carried out on the laminated plate and shell structural elements to provide a validation of the analysis. Experimental investigations are carried out on the laminated composite (E-glass unidirectional fibers reinforced epoxy resin) cantilevered plate and shell structural elements to provide a validation of the analysis. The effectiveness of these methods is clearly demonstrated by the results obtained.


Author(s):  
M.A. Ansari ◽  
V.K. Tiwari

Purpose: The operation of engineering structures may cause various type of damages like cracks, alterations. Such kind of defects can lead to change in vibration characteristics of cantilever beam. The superposition of frequency causes resonance leading to amplitude built up and failure of beam. The current research investigates the effect of crack dimensional parameters on vibrational characteristics of cantilever beam. Design/methodology/approach: The CAD design and FE simulation studies are conducted in ANSYS 20 simulation package. The natural frequencies, mode shapes and response surface plots are generated, and comparative studies are performed. The effect of crack dimensional parameters is then investigated using Taguchi Design of Experiments. The statistical method of central composite design (CCD) scheme in Response Surface Optimization is used to generated various design points based on variation of crack width and crack depth. Findings: The research findings have shown that crack depth or crack height have significant effect on magnitude of deformation and natural frequency. The deformation is minimum at 0.009 m crack height and reaches maximum value at 0.011 m crack height. Research limitations/implications: The crack induced in the cantilever beam needs to be repaired properly in order to avoid crack propagation due to resonance. The present study enabled to determine frequencies of external excitation which should be avoided. The limitation of current research is the type of crack studied which is transverse type. The effect of longitudinal cracks on vibration characteristics is not investigated. Practical implications: The study on mass participation factor has shown maximum value for torsional frequency which signifies that any external excitation along this direction should be avoided which could cause resonance and lead to amplitude build up. Originality/value: The beams are used in bridge girders and other civil structures which are continuously exposed to moist climate. The moisture present in the air causes corrosion which initiates crack. This crack propagates and alters the natural frequency of beam.


2015 ◽  
Vol 220-221 ◽  
pp. 264-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandris Rucevskis ◽  
Pavel Akishin ◽  
Andris Chate

The paper describes on-going research effort at detecting and localizing damage in plate-like structures using mode shape curvature based damage detection algorithm. The proposed damage index uses data on exclusively mode shape curvature from the damaged structure. This method was originally developed for beam-like structures. The article generalizes the method of plate-like structures characterized by two-dimensional mode shape curvature. To examine limitations of the method, several sets of simulated data are applied and the obtained results of the numerical detection of damage are validated by comparing them with the findings of the case of the experimental test. The simulated test cases include the damage of various levels of severity. In order to ascertain the sensitivity of the proposed method for noisy experimental data, numerical mode shapes are corrupted with different levels of random noise. Modal frequencies and corresponding mode shapes of an aluminium plate containing mill-cut damage are obtained via finite element models for numerical simulations and by using a scanning laser vibrometer (SLV) for the experimental study.


Aviation ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandris Ručevskis ◽  
Andris Chate

In this paper, an on-going research effort aimed at detecting and localising damage in plate-like structures by using mode shape curvature–based damage detection algorithms is described. Two alternative damage indexes are examined. The first one uses exclusively mode shape curvature data from the damaged structure. This method was originally developed for beam-like structures. In this paper, the method is generalised to plate-like structures that are characterised by two-dimensional mode shape curvature. To examine limitations of the method, several sets of simulated data are applied and damage detection results are compared to the damage identification method that requires mode shape information from both the undamaged and the damaged states of the structure. The modal frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes for the first 15 modes of a plate are obtained via finite element models. Simulated test cases include damage of various levels of severity. In order to ascertain the sensitivity of the proposed method to noisy experimental data, numerical mode shapes are corrupted with different levels of random noise.


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