Journal
STRUCTURAL CONTROL & HEALTH MONITORING
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 1273-1286Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/stc.1841
Keywords
bridge; damage; drive-by; indirect; laser vibrometer; mode shape
Funding
- Irish Research Council
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This paper presents a novel algorithm for bridge damage detection based on the mode shapes estimated from a passing vehicle. The bridge response at the moving coordinate is measured from an instrumented vehicle with laser vibrometers and accelerometers. A modified version of the Short Time Frequency Domain Decomposition method is applied to the measured responses. The bridge mode shape is estimated with high resolution, which is appropriate for damage detection. A damage index based on mode shape squares is used to detect the presence and location of the damage. A numerical case study of a half-car model passing over a bridge is described in this paper, which validates the performance of the proposed approach. Several damage scenarios are considered including different locations and severities. It is shown that the presence and location of the damage can be detected with acceptable accuracy when the vehicle is moving very slowly. In addition, the performance of the method using higher vehicle speeds is investigated and shows that the approach works well for speeds up to 8m/s. The sensitivity of the algorithm to measurement noise is also studied by adding several levels of noise to the responses measured on the vehicle. Copyright (c) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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