Abstract
GPS has become an established technique in structural health monitoring. This paper presents the application of an on-line GPS RTK system on the Zhujiang Huangpu Bridge (China) for monitoring bridge deck and towers movements. In this study, both the form and functions of movements of the deck and towers of the bridge under affecting loads were monitored in lateral, longitudinal and vertical directions. Such movements were described in time and frequency domains by determining the trend, torsion, periodical of the
series using probability density function (PDF). The results of the time series GPS data are practical and
useful to bridge health monitoring.
Key Words
GPS; monitoring; bridge; SHM; PDF
Address
Mosbeh R. Kaloop : Public Works and Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University,
EL-Mansoura 35516, Egypt
Abstract
For the safety of prestressed structures such as cable-stayed bridges and prestressed concrete bridges, it is very important to ensure the prestress force of cable or tendon. The loss of prestress force could significantly reduce load carrying capacity of the structure and even result in structural collapse. The objective of this study is to present a smart PZT-interface for wireless impedance-based prestress-loss monitoring in tendon-anchorage connection. Firstly, a smart PZT-interface is newly designed for sensitively monitoring of electro-mechanical impedance changes in tendon-anchorage subsystem. To analyze the effect of prestress force, an analytical model of tendon-anchorage is described regarding to the relationship between prestress force and structural parameters of the anchorage contact region. Based on the analytical model, an impedance-based method for monitoring of prestress-loss is conducted using the impedance-sensitive PZT-interface. Secondly, wireless impedance sensor node working on Imote2 platforms, which is interacted with the smart PZTinterface,
is outlined. Finally, experiment on a lab-scale tendon-anchorage of a prestressed concrete girder is conducted to evaluate the performance of the smart PZT-interface along with the wireless impedance sensor node on prestress-loss detection. Frequency shift and cross correlation deviation of impedance signature are utilized to estimate impedance variation due to prestress-loss.
Key Words
prestress-loss; tendon-anchorage; electro-mechanical impedance; smart PZT-interface; wireless impedance sensor; structural health monitoring
Address
Khac-Duy Nguyen and Jeong-Tae Kim :Department of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan 608-737, Korea
Abstract
The present work deals with second order statistics of post buckling response of piezoelectric laminated composite cylindrical shell panel subjected to hygro-thermo-electro-mechanical loading with random system properties. System parameters such as the material properties, thermal expansion coefficients and lamina plate thickness are assumed to be independent of the temperature and electric field and modeled as random variables. The piezoelectric material is used in the forms of layers surface bonded on the layers of laminated composite shell panel. The mathematical formulation is based on higher order shear deformation shell theory (HSDT) with von-Karman nonlinear kinematics. A efficient C0 nonlinear finite element method
based on direct iterative procedure in conjunction with a first order perturbation approach (FOPT) is developed
for the implementation of the proposed problems in random environment and is employed to evaluate the
second order statistics (mean and variance) of the post buckling load of piezoelectric laminated cylindrical
shell panel. Typical numerical results are presented to examine the effect of various environmental conditions,
amplitude ratios, electrical voltages, panel side to thickness ratios, aspect ratios, boundary conditions, curvature to side ratios, lamination schemes and types of loadings with random system properties. It is observed that the piezoelectric effect has a significant influence on the stochastic post buckling response of composite shell
panel under various loading conditions and some new results are presented to demonstrate the applications of
present work. The results obtained using the present solution approach is validated with those results available
in the literature and also with independent Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS).
Key Words
piezoelectric laminated cylindrical shell panel; random system properties; hygrothermoelectromechanical
loading; finite element method
Address
Achchhe Lal and Nitesh Saidane : Department of Mechanical Engineering, S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat-395007, India
B.N. Singh: Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur-721302, India
Abstract
Controlling the balance of motion in a context involving a biped robot navigating a rugged surface or a step is a difficult task. In the present study, a 3x5 flexible piezoelectric tactile sensor array is developed to provide a foot pressure map and zero moment point for a biped robot. We introduce an innovative concept involving structural electrodes on a piezoelectric film in order to improve the sensitivity. The tactile sensor consists of a polymer piezoelectric film, PVDF, between two patterned flexible print circuit substrates (FPC). Additionally, a silicon rubber bump-like structure is attached to the FPC and covered by a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layer. Experimental results show that the output signal of the sensor exhibits a linear behavior within 0.2 N ~ 9 N, while its sensitivity is approximately 42 mV/N. According to the characteristic of the tactile sensor, the readout module is designed for an in-situ display of the pressure magnitudes and distribution within 3x5 taxels. Furthermore, the trajectory of the zero moment point (ZMP) can also be
calculated by this program. Consequently, our tactile sensor module can provide the pressure map and ZMP
information to the in-situ feedback to control the balance of moment for a biped robot.
Key Words
tactile sensor; piezoelectric; foot pressure; biped robot
Address
Cheng-Hsin Chuang and Yi-Rong Liou : Department of Mechanical Engineering & Institute of Nanotechnology, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan 71005, Taiwan
Ming-Yuan Shieh : Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan 71005, Taiwan
Abstract
Theoretical analysis is performed on a multi-mode energy harvester design with focus on the first two vibration modes. Based on the analysis, a modification is proposed for designing a novel adaptive multimode energy harvester. The device comprises a simply supported beam with distributed mass and piezoelectric elements, and an adaptive damper that provides a 180 degree phase shift for the motions of two supports only at the second vibration mode. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations show that the new design can efficiently scavenge energy at the first two vibration modes. The energy harvesting capability of the multimode energy harvester is also compared with that of a cantilever-based energy harvester for single-mode
vibration. The results show that the energy harvesting capacity is affected by the damping ratios of different
designs. For fixed damping ratio and design dimensions, the multi-mode design has higher energy harvesting capacity than the cantilever-based design.
Key Words
multi-mode design; piezoelectric energy harvester; vibration; adaptive damper; phase shift
Address
Ying Zhang and Binghu Zhu : School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
