• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.227-241
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• 2024

Safety and structural integrity of civil structures, like bridges and buildings, can be substantially enhanced by employing appropriate structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for timely diagnosis of incipient damages. The information gathered from health monitoring of important infrastructure helps in making informed decisions on their maintenance. This ensures smooth, uninterrupted operation of the civil infrastructure and also cuts down the overall maintenance cost. With an early warning system, SHM can protect human life during major structural failures. A real-time online damage localization technique is proposed using only the vibration measurements in this paper. The concept of the 'Degree of Scatter' (DoS) of the vibration measurements is used to generate a spatial profile, and fractal dimension theory is used for damage detection and localization in the proposed two-phase algorithm. Further, it ensures robustness against environmental and operational variability (EoV). The proposed method works only with output-only responses and does not require correlated finite element models. Investigations are carried out to test the presented algorithm, using the synthetic data generated from a simply supported beam, a 25-storey shear building model, and also experimental data obtained from the lab-level experiments on a steel I-beam and a ten-storey framed structure. The investigations suggest that the proposed damage localization algorithm is capable of isolating the influence of the confounding factors associated with EoV while detecting and localizing damage even with noisy measurements.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1545-1561
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• 2008

Among all transportations, railway transports have been promisingly offering excellent energy conservation and travelling time. Inevitably, they become a main role in not only transport goods but also passengers. With leap in development of technology, trains have tremendously enhanced their services in terms of speed, accessibility and comfort. However, the safety and ride quality have become a main issue as the train speed increased. The higher speeds have led the structural dynamics and health must be monitored from time to time to ensure that they are in good condition to provide reliable ride. Among all monitoring systems, the structural health monitoring (SHM) systems are imperative important due to its capability of in-situ monitoring and inherently reduce the maintenance frequencies and the huge associated cost. In this paper, SHM systems and the related non-destructive test and evaluation methods were discussed. The types of damages related to train vehicles as well as the damage hot spots are also included in this paper.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2003년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.549-555
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• 2003

The objective of かis study is to investigate the feasibility of piezoelectric transducers as a damage detection system for civil infrastructures. There have been considerable amount of efforts by the modal analysis community to localize damage and evaluate its severity without looking at a reliable way to excite the structure. The detection of damages by modal analysis and similar vibration techniques depends upon the knowledge and estimation of various modal parameters. In addition to the associated difficulties, such low-frequency dynamic response based techniques fail to detect incipient damages. Smart piezoelectric ceramic (PZT) transducers which act as both actuators and sensors in a self-analyzing manner are emerging to be effective in non-parametric health monitoring of structural systems. In this paper, we present the results of an experimental study for the detection of damages using smart PZT transducers on the steel plate. The method of extracting the impedance characteristics of the PZT transducer, which is electro-mechanically coupled to the host structure, is adopted for damage detection. Two damages are simulated and assessed by the bonded PZT transducers for characterization. The experimental results verified the efficacy of the proposed approach and provided a demonstration of good robustness at the realistic steel structures, emphasizing the great potential for developing an automated in situ structural health monitoring system for application to large civil infrastructures without the need to blow the modal parameters.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.279-293
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• 2019

To ensure high quality data being used for data mining or feature extraction in the bridge structural health monitoring (SHM) system, a practical sensor fault diagnosis methodology has been developed based on the similarity of symmetric structure responses. First, the similarity of symmetric response is discussed using field monitoring data from different sensor types. All the sensors are initially paired and sensor faults are then detected pair by pair to achieve the multi-fault diagnosis of sensor systems. To resolve the coupling response issue between structural damage and sensor fault, the similarity for the target zone (where the studied sensor pair is located) is assessed to determine whether the localized structural damage or sensor fault results in the dissimilarity of the studied sensor pair. If the suspected sensor pair is detected with at least one sensor being faulty, field test could be implemented to support the regression analysis based on the monitoring and field test data for sensor fault isolation and reconstruction. Finally, a case study is adopted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology. As a result, Dasarathy's information fusion model is adopted for multi-sensor information fusion. Euclidean distance is selected as the index to assess the similarity. In conclusion, the proposed method is practical for actual engineering which ensures the reliability of further analysis based on monitoring data.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.67-72
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• 2021

To ensure the safety and functionality of a railroad bridge, maintaining the integrity of the bridge via continuous structural health monitoring is important. However, most structural integrity monitoring methods proposed to date are based on modal responses which require the extracting process and have limited availability. In this paper, the applicability of the existing damage identification method based on free-vibration reponses to time-domain deflection shapes due to moving train load is investigated. Since the proposed method directly utilizes the time-domain responses of the structure due to the moving vehicles, the extracting process for modal responses can be avoided, and the applicability of structural health evaluation can be enhanced. The feasibility of the presented method is verified via a numerical example of a simple plate girder bridge.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.265-271
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 임피던스(impedance)를 이용하여 저비용으로 구조물의 결함을 탐지할 수 있는 기법을 연구한다. 임피던스 기법은 구조물 건전성 모니터링을 위한 국부적 결함탐지의 대표적인 기법으로써, 압전재료를 구조물의 표면에 부착하여 구조물의 전기-역학적 어드미턴스(electro-mechanical admittance) 신호를 모니터링 함으로써 결함을 추정하는 기법이다. 이 기법을 적용하기 위하여 일반적으로 고가의 임피던스 분석기(impedance analyser)가 사용되는데, 기술의 효과적인 보급을 위해서는 저비용의 기법을 개발할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 임피던스 분석기를 대체하여, 일반적으로 실험실에서 사용되는 함수발생기(function generator)와 디지털 멀티미터(digital multimeter)만을 이용하여 전달 임피던스(transfer impedance)를 측정함으로써 구조물에 발생하는 결함을 탐지할 수 있는 기법을 연구한다. 즉, 건전상태와 손상상태에서 측정되는 전압의 진폭비를 이용한 손상지수를 비교함으로써 결함 유무를 판정할 수 있는 기법을 연구한다. 강재 시편에 대한 전달 임피던스 실험을 수행하였는데, 출력 전압의 진폭비를 이용한 손상지수를 비교함으로써 결함 유무를 합리적으로 판정할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 임피던스 기반 저비용 결함탐지기법을 위한 기초연구로써, 향후 결함의 위치 및 정도를 판정할 수 있는 연구가 보완된다면 구조물 건전성 모니터링에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2008년도 정기 학술대회
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• pp.145-150
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• 2008

This study proposes an improved AR-model based structural joint integrity monitoring method and a new damage sensitive feature using RMS values of impulse responses. The proposed methods were applied for joint integrity monitoring of a model scale 2-bay and 4-story steel frame structure and it was found that the AR coefficients could be more consistently estimated by adopting the band-pass filter and cross-correlation function to the raw acceleration signals and the joint damages could be successfully monitored by the proposed methods.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.435-457
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• 2015

The most widely known form of multifunctional aircraft structure is smart structures for structural health monitoring (SHM). The aim is to provide automated systems whose purposes are to identify and to characterize possible damage within structures by using a network of actuators and sensors. Unfortunately, environmental and operational variability render many of the proposed damage detection methods difficult to successfully be applied. In this paper, an original robust damage detection approach using output-only vibration data is proposed. It is based on independent component analysis and matrix perturbation analysis, where an analytical threshold is proposed to get rid of statistical assumptions usually performed in damage detection approach. The effectiveness of the proposed SHM method is demonstrated numerically using finite element simulations and experimentally through a conformal load-bearing antenna structure and composite plates instrumented with piezoelectric ceramic materials.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.145-155
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• 2002

It is essential for health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge to provide more accurate and enough information from the sensors. In experimental modal testing, the chosen measurement locations and the number of measurements have a major influence on the quality of the results. The choice is often difficult for complex structures like a cable-stayed bridge. It is extremely important a cable-stayed bridge to minimize the number of sensing operations required to monitor the structural system. In order to obtain the desired accuracy for the structural test, several issues must take into consideration. Two important issues are the number and location of response sensors. There are usually several alternative locations where different sensors can be located. On the other hand, the number of sensors might be limited due to economic constraints. Therefore, techniques such as methodologies, algorithms etc., which address the issue of limited instrumentation and its effects on resolution and accuracy in health monitoring systems are paramount to a damage diagnosis approach. This paper discusses an optimum sensor placement criterion suitable to the identification of structural damage for continuous health monitoring. A Kinetic Energy optimization technique and an Effective Independence Method are analyzed and numerical and theoretical issues are addressed for a cable-stayed bridge. Its application to a cable-stayed bridge is discussed to optimize the sensor placement for identification and control purposes.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.92-98
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• 2015

최근의 건축물은 복합적인 기능과 형태를 보이고 있으며, 크기가 거대해짐에 따라 구조물 건전성 감시 (Structural Health Monitoring)기술의 수요 또한 증가하고 있다. 구조물마다 고유한 동특성을 가지고 있으며, 다양한 외력의 영향을 받기 때문에 구조물의 건전성을 평가하는 다양한 방법들이 연구되고 있다. 이상거동 시점이란 구조물이 비정상적 (Abnormal)으로 진동하는 시점으로 손상을 명확히 검출하기 위해서는 이상거동의 시점을 기준으로 전과 후를 비교하여야 한다. 즉, 이상거동은 구조물 손상의 이상 징후이며, 정확한 이상거동 시점의 추정은 구조물의 안전과 직결될 수 있다. 이상 거동은 손상을 유발하고 이는 곧 막대한 경제적 피해 및 심각한 인명 피해로 이어지므로 본 연구에서는 시간-주파수 신호분석 기법인 힐버트-황 변환을 이용한 이상거동 시점 추정 기법을 제안하고 진동대를 이용한 모형실험을 통해 제안한 알고리즘의 검증을 수행하였다.