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Aggressive data reduction for damage detection in structural health monitoring

University of Connecticut

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jtang{at}engr.uconn.edu.

	Abstract

While wireless sensors are increasingly adopted in various applications, the need of developing data reduction methods to alleviate data transmission rate issue between the sensors and the data interpretation unit becomes more urgent. This article presents a new data reduction method for sensors used in structural health monitoring application. Our goal is to achieve an effective data reduction capability while maintaining adequate power for damage detection. We propose to establish an explicit measure of damage detection capability for the features in the response signals and use this measure to select the subset of the features that balance between the degree of data reduction and the damage detection capability. We also explore a computationally efficient procedure searching for the best subset of the features. This new method is tested on experimentally obtained Lamb wave signals for beam damage detection. Performance comparisons with respect to the existing methods demonstrate the strength of the proposed method.

First published on June 30, 2009
Structural Health Monitoring 2009, doi:10.1177/1475921709341017


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