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An Investigation on Vibration-based Damage Detection in Circular Plates

Department of Mechanical Engineering, James Weir Building University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK, Irina.Trendafilova{at}strath.ac.uk

D.G. Gorman

Department of Mechanical Engineering, James Weir Building University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK

E. Manoach

Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

This study aimed at the development of vibration-based health monitoring methodology for thin circular plates. The possibility of using the first several natural frequencies of a circular plate for damage detection purposes was investigated first. The study then suggested a damage detection method, which considered a vibrating plate as a dynamic system and used its time-domain response represented in a new phase (state) space to extract damage sensitive characteristics. The paper introduced the idea of using large amplitude vibrations and nonlinear time series analysis for damage detection purposes. The suggested damage detection approach explored the possibility to use certain characteristics of the distribution of phase space points on the attractor of the system. It studied the histograms of this distribution and attempts to extract damage sensitive features. Three damage features were suggested and they are shown to detect damage at a rather low level using a finite element model of the plate. The method suggested was rather generic and permits development and application to more complex structures and real data.

Key Words: vibration-based health monitoring • damage detection • structural vibrations • nonlinear dynamics • state space

This version was published on July 1, 2009

Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 8, No. 4, 291-302 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1475921708102107


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