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Damage Detection of Shear Connectors in Composite Bridges

K. Liu

Department of Civil Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium, kai.liu{at}bwk.kuleuven.be

G. De Roeck

Department of Civil Engineering, K.U. Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 40 B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

Headed shear studs are commonly used to resist longitudinal shear forces in composite railway bridges. Due to the growth of traffic and increase in train speed, these studs are subjected to high-cycle fatigue loading which may lead to damage, thus affecting the integrity between the steel girder and the concrete slab. Therefore, it is necessary to find a corresponding nondestructive damage detection method. Within the frame of this paper, the occurrence of damage in shear studs is studied by numerical analysis. In the numerical model of a real composite bridge, headed shear studs are represented by spring elements. A damage indicator based on the local modal curvature and the wavelet transform modulus maxima is proposed for stud damage identification. The efficiency of the damage indicator is investigated by means of numerical simulations where different levels of damage are introduced to the stud by decreasing the spring stiffness. It is verified that the proposed damage index can be used to locate and to quantify the damage.

Key Words: composite bridge • stud damage detection • modal curvature • WTMM

This version was published on September 1, 2009

Structural Health Monitoring, Vol. 8, No. 5, 345-356 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1475921708102087
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