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Application of Wavelet Transform in Estimating Structural Dynamic Parameters by Vehicle Loading Test  

Park, Hyung-Ghee (인천대학교 토목환경시스템공학과)
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Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection / v.9, no.2, 2005 , pp. 129-136 More about this Journal
Abstract
The vehicle loading test under the strict traffic control is generally carried out as a present practice in an evaluation process of the bearing capacity of a bridge. The quasi-static load test is recently proposed to mitigate the traffic condition of test, and analyze the disturbed acceleration time-history data of free vibration due to the ambient traffic on the bridge by Fourier transform to calculate only the natural frequencies of the bridge. The calculated frequencies have some errors due to the analysis technique as well as the influence of ambient traffic loads, and in addition to it is cumbersome to obtain the free vibration data during a quasi-static load test. In this study, the wavelet transform technique using Morlet wavelet is used to analyze the acceleration data recorded during a quasi-static load test on a bridge and calculate the natural frequencies and the modal damping ratios of the bridge. The study results show that the wavelet transform technique is a reliable and reasonable method to analyze test data and obtain the natural frequencies and the modal damping ratios of a bridge regardless of the data types i.e. free or forced vibrations.
Keywords
Quasi-static load test; Morlet wavelet transform; Natural frequency; Modal damping ratio; Vehicle loading test;
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