• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.333-342
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• 2003

The objective of this paper is to present an algorithm to locate and size damage in a beam structure. The method uses the changes in the modal strain energy distribution. A damage index, utilized to identify possible location and corresponding severity of local damage, is formulated and expressed in terms of modal displacements that can be obtained from mode shapes of the undamaged and the damaged structures. The possible damage locations in the structure arc determined by the application of damage indicator according to previously developed decision rules. The robustness and effectiveness of the method arc demonstrated using numerical examples of beam structures with simulated damage.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.391-398
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• 2016

Acoustic emission (AE) is one of the most powerful techniques for detecting damages and identify damage location during operations. However, in case of the source location technique, there is some limitation in conventional AE technology, because it strongly depends on wave speed in the corresponding structures having heterogeneous composite materials. A compressed natural gas(CNG) pressure vessel is usually made of carbon fiber composite outside of vessel for the purpose of strengthening. In this type of composite material, locating impact damage sources exactly using conventional time arrival method is difficult. To overcome this limitation, this study applied the previously developed Contour D/B map technique to four types of CNG storage tanks to identify the source location of damages caused by external shock. The results of the identification of the source location for different types were compared.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.726-734
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• 2007

구조물에 손상이 발생하면 구조물의 강성변화로 구조물의 고유진동수에 변화가 발생하게 된다. 실험을 통해 얻을 수 있는 손상 전 구조물의 고유진동수와 해석적 방법을 사용하여 구하는 고유진동수가 같다고 가정하고 해석적인 방법으로 손상전후 고유진동수비를 구하여 3차원 그래프로 표시하였다. 손상이 한 부위에 존재할 경우 진동실험으로 구한 고유진동수비를 고유진동수비 그래프와 비교하여 손상의 위치, 크기 및 방향을 알 수 있었으나 여러 지점에 손상이 발생할 경우에는 손상을 파악하기 위해 고유진동수비 그래프 외에 주파수 응답함수를 병행하여 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.213-216
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• 2009

유한요소모델개선기법은 계측된 동특성을 모사하는 구조해석모델을 구하는 방법으로서 손상탐지 및 구조건전도감시를 위해 효과적으로 이용될 수 있다. 유한요소모델개선기법에는 다양한 종류의 동특성데이터가 사용될 수 있는데, 본 연구에서는 고유진동수와 모드형상을 사용한 경우와 고유진동수와 주파수응답함수를 사용한 경우를 각각 사용해 실험실 규모의 구조물의 손상 위치 및 손상정도를 추정하였다. 4층 철골조의 골조구조물로서 진동대를 이용하여 원구조물에 백색잡음 가진실험을 실시한 후 손상의 모사를 위해 1층 부분의 보 부재를 작은 단면의 부재로 교체하고 동일한 실험을 반복하였다. 보 부재 교체 전 후에 계측된 데이터와 두 종류의 모델개선기법을 각각 적용하여 손상탐지를 실시한 후 그 정확도를 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.81-87
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• 2003

In this paper, the feasibility of using Shannon's sampling theorem to reconstruct exact mode shapes of a structural system from a limited number of sensor points and localizing damage in that structure with reconstructed mode shapes is investigated. Shannon's sampling theorem for the time domain is reviewed. The theorem is then extended to the spatial domain. To verify the usefulness of extended theorem, mode shapes of a simple beam are reconstructed from a limited amount of data and the reconstructed mode shapes are compared to the exact mode shapes. On the basis of the results, a simple rule is proposed for the optimal placement of accelerometers in modal parameter extraction experiments. Practicality of the proposed rule and the extended Shannon's theorem is demonstrated by detecting damage in laboratory beam structure with two-span via applying to mode shapes of pre and post damage states.

• Composites Research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.21-27
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• 2007

Low-velocity impact damage in a composite stiffened panel was detected using built-in piezoelectric active sensor arrays. Using these piezoelectric active sensors, various diagnostic signals were generated to propagate Lamb waves through the structure and the responses were picked up to detect changes in the structure's vibration signature due to the damage. Three algorithms - ADI(Active Damage Interrogation), TD RMS (Time Domain Root Mean Square) and STFT (Short Time Fourier Transform) - were examined to express the features of the signal changes as one damage index. From damage detecting tests, two impact induced delaminations were detected and the location was estimated with the algorithms and diagnostic signals.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.550-557
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• 2008

Delamination damage at a bolt hole in a composite stiffened panel was detected using a built-in piezoelectric active sensor array. Various signal processing techniques were used to detect an invisible small scale delamination around a fastener hole due to localized transverse loading. A built-in piezoelectric sensor array was used to generate diagnostic signals and to measure response signals. Then, the response signals were processed to extract damage-sensitive features. Damage indexes were calculated to estimate the severity and location of the damage from the features.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.200-204
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• 2009

구조물의 건전도를 평가하기 위하여 계측된 데이터로부터 구조물의 동특성 변화를 분석하여 손상정도를 추정하는 방법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 최근, 다점 측정된 가속도 데이터로부터 구조물의 고유진동수 및 모드형상을 추출하고 이를 초기값과 비교하여 손상탐지를 실시함으로써 손상위치 및 손상정도를 추정하는 기법이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방법을 실제 적용하기 위해서는 계측시스템 구축에 많은 비용이 소요되며, 손상탐지를 위한 해석과정이 복잡하기 때문에 실시간에 가깝게 유용한 정보를 거주자에게 제공하는데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실용적인 계측유지관리 시스템을 구축할 수 있도록 구조물의 손상도에 따른 동적특성의 변화를 사전에 예측하여 실제 계측된 동적특성에 대한 관리 한계치를 제공하는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.445-452
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• 2009

In this paper, damage detection procedure using the finite element model updating was formulated and applied to a small-scale frame structure. FE model updating is the analytical method which finds the mathematical model that generates the measured dynamic properties similarly, and can be effectively used for the damage detection and SHM. For model updating, several kinds of dynamic properties, such as the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and frequency response functions, can be used as the inputs. In this paper, two kinds of model updating procedures using the natrual frequency and the frequency response function, and the natrual frequency and the mode shapes, respectively, were applied to identify the location and the severity of damage of the test structure, which is a four-story two bay steel structure. Results from the damage detection showed that more accurate identification results was obtained when the natrual frequency and the frequency response function were used than when the natrual frequency and the mode shapes were used.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.938-945
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• 2003

In the present study, the inverse perturbation method is applied to the structural damage detection in conjunction with a system condensation technique. The system condensation technique is adopted to r esolve the problem due to the incomplete measurement of the degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) in a natural mode. However, the numerical difficulty may arise in the system condensation when the DOFs to be measured are not properly selected. Thus, the issue of sensor placement for structural damage detection, in the framework of the condensation technique-based inverse perturbation method, is considered in this study. Also, a methodology to measure the number of sensors required to obtain reliable damage detection is proposed and then verified through some illustrative example problem.