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Assessment of Vibration-based Damage Identification Methods Using Displacement and Distributed Strain Measurements

Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan

Zhishen Wu

Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan, zswu{at}mx.ibaraki.ac.jp

N.H.M. Kammrujaman Serker

Department of Urban and Civil Engineering, Ibaraki University 4-12-1 Nakanarusawa-cho, Hitachi, Ibaraki 316-8511, Japan

Accurate measurement and monitoring of vibration characteristics is critical for proper detection of the location and severity of damage. However, experimentally measured modal properties are inevitably corrupted by measurement noise and errors, which could render most vibration-based structural damage identification algorithms unreliable for civil structural health monitoring (SHM). This article, through computer simulation and experimental investigation of a simply supported beam, comparatively evaluates the performance of these techniques for practical civil SHM by using displacement modes from accelerometers and long-gage distributed strain measurements. Most of all the techniques proved unreliable for damage identification using noisy measurements from accelerometers, while successful with distributed strain measurements. The findings reveal that long-gage distributed strain measurements are much more efficient choice over the traditional measurement techniques for reliable civil SHM. It may therefore be concluded that the performance of some algorithms might be improved for application to civil infrastructure by using distributed strain fiber optic sensing measurement techniques.

Key Words: damage identification • distributed strain • FBG sensors • measurement noise • structural health monitoring

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 8, No. 6, 443-461 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1475921709340964


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