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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 40, Number 5, December10 2011 , pages 719-743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2011.40.5.719
 


Hybrid damage monitoring of steel plate-girder bridge under train-induced excitation by parallel accelerationimpedance approach
D.S. Hong, H.J. Jung and J.T. Kim

 
Abstract
    A hybrid damage monitoring scheme using parallel acceleration-impedance approaches is proposed to detect girder damage and support damage in steel plate-girder bridges which are under ambient train-induced excitations. The hybrid scheme consists of three phases: global and local damage monitoring in parallel manner, damage occurrence alarming and local damage identification, and detailed damage estimation. In the first phase, damage occurrence in a structure is globally monitored by changes in vibration features and, at the same moment, damage occurrence in local critical members is monitored by changes in impedance features. In the second phase, the occurrence of damage is alarmed and the type of damage is locally identified by recognizing patterns of vibration and impedance features. In the final phase, the location and severity of the locally identified damage are estimated by using modal strain energy-based damage index methods. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is evaluated on a steel plategirder bridge model which was experimentally tested under model train-induced excitations. Acceleration responses and electro-mechanical impedance signatures were measured for several damage scenarios of girder damage and support damage.
 
Key Words
    acceleration; impedance; hybrid; structural health monitoring; steel plate-girder; girder crack; support failure
 
Address
D.S. Hong: Department of Ocean Eng, Pukyong National University, Nam-gu, Busan 608-737, Korea
H.J. Jung: Department of Civil and Environmental Eng., Korea Advanced Institute Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
J.T. Kim: Department of Ocean Eng, Pukyong National University, Nam-gu, Busan 608-737, Korea
 

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