Journal
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 86-104Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1475921719836953
Keywords
Breathing crack; superharmonics; intermodulation; vibroacoustics; spectral density function; cyclic spectral analysis; non-linearity; cyclo-stationarity; spectral correlation
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Structural damages can result in non-linear dynamical signatures such as lower and higher order harmonics and signal modulation that can significantly enhance their detection. The conventional spectral analysis is used in most existing vibration-based damage diagnostic techniques to extract these damage-sensitive non-linear features. However, the major limitation of using spectral analysis is that the amplitudes of non-linear harmonics are highly sensitive to measurement noise and may mislead the damage diagnostic process. Keeping this in view, we present a new reference-free damage diagnostic technique for fatigue-breathing crack detection, localization and characterization using the cyclic spectral analysis-based technique. A new damage index based on spectral correlation exploiting the non-linear intermodulation in the response is proposed. The proposed cyclic spectral analysis-based diagnostics are highly immune to the measurement noise. Numerical and experimental simulation studies have been carried out by considering a beam with single and multiple breathing cracks, to test and verify the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed technique.
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