Vibration-Based SHM Strategy for a Real Time Alert System with Damage Location and Quantification

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Abstract

We present a simple and fully automatable vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) alert system. The proposed method consists in applying an Automated Frequency Domain Decomposition (AFDD) algorithm to obtain the eigenfrequencies and mode shapes in real time from acceleration measurements, allowing to provide a diagnosis based on a Support Vector Machine algorithm trained with a database of the modal properties in undamaged and damaged scenarios accounting for temperature variability. The result is an alert system for controlling the correct performance of the structure in real time with a simple but efficient approach. Once the alert is triggered, the undamaged mode shapes (which could be previously stored in a database of modal parameters classified by temperature) and the current (damaged) mode shapes, can provide guidance for further application of Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) techniques. The method is trained and validated with simulations from a FE model that is calibrated employing a genetic algorithm with real data from a short-term vibration measurement campaign on a truss railway bridge in Alicante (Spain).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuropean Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring - Special Collection of 2020 Papers - Volume 1
EditorsPiervincenzo Rizzo, Alberto Milazzo
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages245-255
Number of pages11
Volume127
ISBN (Print)9783030645939, 978-303064593-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Jan 2021
EventEuropean Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, EWSHM 2020 -
Duration: 6 Jul 20209 Jul 2020

Publication series

NameEuropean Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring - Special Collection of 2020 Papers - Volume 1
Volume127
ISSN (Print)2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)2366-2565

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, EWSHM 2020
Period6/07/209/07/20

Keywords

  • Bridge maintenance
  • Machine learning
  • Structural dynamics
  • Structural health monitoring

Project and Funding Information

  • Project ID
  • info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/769373/EU/Future proofing strategies FOr RESilient transport networks against Extreme Events/FORESEE
  • Funding Info
  • This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the grant agreement No 769373 (FORESEE project). This paper reflects only the author’s views. The European Commission and INEA are not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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