Flow-Informed Vibration-Based Health Monitoring Technique

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tso-Kang Wang ◽  
Vahid Tavanashad ◽  
Akriti Tripathi ◽  
Rajan Kumar ◽  
Kourosh Shoele
Author(s):  
Aline Eid ◽  
Jiang Zhu ◽  
Luzhou Xu ◽  
Jimmy G.D. Hester ◽  
Manos M. Tentzeris

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijie Li ◽  
Shuli Fan ◽  
Siu Chun Michael Ho ◽  
Jianchao Wu ◽  
Gangbing Song

For reinforced concrete structures, the use of fiber-reinforced polymer rebars to replace the steel reinforcement is a topic that is receiving increasing attention, especially where corrosion is a serious issue. However, fiber-reinforced polymer rebar–reinforced concrete always carries the risk of structural failure initiated from the debonding damage that might occur at the reinforcement–concrete interface. This study employed an electro-mechanical impedance–based structural health monitoring technique by applying lead–zirconate–titanate ceramic patches to detect the debonding damage of a carbon fiber–reinforced polymer rebar reinforced concrete. In the experimental study, a carbon fiber–reinforced polymer rebar reinforced concrete specimen was fabricated and it was subjected to a pullout test to initiate the debonding damage at the reinforcement–concrete interface. The impedance and admittance signatures were measured from an impedance analyzer according to the different debonding conditions between the reinforcement and the concrete. Statistical damage metrics, root-mean-square deviation and mean absolute percentage deviation, were used to quantify the changes in impedance signatures measured at the lead–zirconate–titanate patches due to debonding conditions. The results illustrated the capability of the electro-mechanical impedance–based structural health monitoring technique for detecting the debonding damage of fiber-reinforced polymer rebar–reinforced concrete structures.


Author(s):  
Kyle Bassett ◽  
Rupp Carriveau ◽  
David S.-K. Ting

Structural health monitoring is a technique devised to monitor the structural conditions of a system in an attempt to take corrective measures before the system fails. A passive structural health monitoring technique is presented, which serves to leverage historic time series data in order to both detect and localize damage on a wind turbine blade aerodynamic model. First, vibration signals from the healthy system are recorded for various input conditions. The data is normalized and auto-regressive (AR) coefficients are determined in order to uniquely identify the normal behavior of the system for each input condition. This data is then stored in a healthy state database. When the structural condition of the system is unknown the vibration signals are acquired, normalized and identified by their AR coefficients. Damage is detected through the residual error which is calculated as the difference between the AR coefficients of the unknown and healthy structural conditions. This technique is tailored for wind turbines and the application of this approach is demonstrated in a wind tunnel using a small turbine blade held with four springs to create a dual degree-of-freedom system. The vibration signals from this system are characterized by free-stream speed. Damage is replicated through mass addition on each of the blades ends and is located by an increase in residual error from the accelerometer mounted closest to the damaged area. The outlined procedure and demonstration illustrate a single stage structural health monitoring technique that, when applied on a large scale, can avoid catastrophic turbine disasters and work to effectively reduce the maintenance costs and downtime of wind farm operations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuefeng Zhao ◽  
Kwang Ri ◽  
Ruicong Han ◽  
Yan Yu ◽  
Mingchu Li ◽  
...  

In the recent years, with the development and popularization of smartphone, the utilization of smartphone in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has attracted increasing attention owing to its unique feature. Since bridges are of great importance to society and economy, bridge health monitoring has very practical significance during its service life. Furthermore, rapid damage assessment of bridge after an extreme event such as earthquake is very important in the recovery work. Smartphone-based bridge health monitoring and postevent damage evaluation have advantages over the conventional monitoring techniques, such as low cost, ease of installation, and convenience. Therefore, this study investigates the implementation feasibility of the quick bridge health monitoring technique using smartphone. A novel vision-based cable force measurement method using smartphone camera is proposed, and, then, its feasibility and practicality is initially validated through cable model test. An experiment regarding multiple parameters monitoring of one bridge scale model is carried out. Parameters, such as acceleration, displacement, and angle, are monitored using smartphone. The experiment results show that there is a good agreement between the reference sensor and smartphone measurements in both time and frequency domains.


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