Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND DYNAMICS
Volume 18, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455418400035
Keywords
Ambient excitation; stationary/non-stationary excitation; cross-correlation functions; incomplete measurement; measurement noise; extended Kalman filter; structural damage detection
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [51378445]
- Shanghai Municipal science and Technology Committee [16DZ1200102]
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It is still necessary to investigate the detection of structural damage under ambient excitations since the excitations are random and unmeasured while measurement noises are inevitable. In this paper, a method based on the synthesis of cross-correlation functions of partial structural responses and the extended Kalman filter (EKF) approach is proposed for the identification and damage detection of structures under ambient excitations, in which both independent stationary and non-stationary white noise excitations in the product models are discussed. First, the equations of cross-correlation functions of structural responses are established when the ambient excitations are independent stationary white noise processes. Then, the EKF approach is utilized to identify structural parameters and cross-correlation functions using partial measurements of structural acceleration responses. Structural damage is detected based on the degradations of the identified structural element stiffness parameters. Finally, the proposed method is extended to deal with independent non-stationary white noise excitations in the product models. The numerical simulation examples of the ASCE structural health monitoring benchmark building subject to ambient excitation, a moment resisting frame model under white noise excitation, and a cantilever beam model under multiple independent non-stationary excitations are used to validate the feasibility of the proposed method. It is shown that the method is not sensitive to measurement noises. Also, a lab experimental study of the identification of a multi-story shear structure is investigated to further illustrate the applicability of the proposed method.
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