Structural damage identification of bridges from passing test vehicles

Yang Yang, Yuanhao Zhu, Li Lei Wang, Bao Yulong Jia, Ruoyu Jin

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    Abstract

    This paper presents two approaches for the structural damage identification of a bridge from the dynamic response recorded from a test vehicle during its passage over the bridge. Using the acceleration response recorded by the vibration sensors mounted on a test vehicle during its passage over the bridge, along with the computed displacement response, the bending stiffness of the bridge can be determined using either: (1) the frequency-domain method based on the improved directed stiffness method with the identified frequency and corresponding mode shape, or (2) the time-domain method based on the residual vector of the least squares method with a fourth-order displacement moment. By comparing the bending stiffness values identified from the vehicle-collected data for the bridge under the undamaged and damaged states that are monitored regularly by the test vehicle, the bridge damage location and severity can be identified. Through numerical simulations and field tests, the present approaches are shown to be effective and feasible.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number4035
    JournalSensors (Switzerland)
    Volume18
    Issue number11
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 19 Nov 2018

    Bibliographical note

    © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

    Keywords

    • Bending stiffness
    • Bridge
    • Damage identification
    • Environmental noise
    • Test vehicle

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