• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.489-504
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• 2012

For the safety of prestressed structures such as cable-stayed bridges and prestressed concrete bridges, it is very important to ensure the prestress force of cable or tendon. The loss of prestress force could significantly reduce load carrying capacity of the structure and even result in structural collapse. The objective of this study is to present a smart PZT-interface for wireless impedance-based prestress-loss monitoring in tendon-anchorage connection. Firstly, a smart PZT-interface is newly designed for sensitively monitoring of electro-mechanical impedance changes in tendon-anchorage subsystem. To analyze the effect of prestress force, an analytical model of tendon-anchorage is described regarding to the relationship between prestress force and structural parameters of the anchorage contact region. Based on the analytical model, an impedance-based method for monitoring of prestress-loss is conducted using the impedance-sensitive PZT-interface. Secondly, wireless impedance sensor node working on Imote2 platforms, which is interacted with the smart PZT-interface, is outlined. Finally, experiment on a lab-scale tendon-anchorage of a prestressed concrete girder is conducted to evaluate the performance of the smart PZT-interface along with the wireless impedance sensor node on prestress-loss detection. Frequency shift and cross correlation deviation of impedance signature are utilized to estimate impedance variation due to prestress-loss.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.616-625
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• 2011

Ensuring the designed prestress force is very important for the safety of prestressed concrete bridge. The loss of prestress force in tendon could significantly reduce load carrying capacity of the structure. In this study, an automated prestress-loss monitoring system for prestressed concrete girder using PZT-interface and wireless impedance sensor node is presented. The following approaches are carried out to achieve the objective. Firstly, wireless impedance sensor nodes are designed for automated impedance-based monitoring technique. The sensor node is mounted on the high-performance Imote2 sensor platform to fulfill high operating speed, low power requirement and large storage memory. Secondly, a smart PZT-interface designed for monitoring prestress force is described. A linear regression model is established to predict prestress-loss. Finally, a system of the PZT-interface interacted with the wireless sensor node is evaluated from a lab-scale tendon-anchorage connection of a prestressed concrete girder.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2010

This paper presents a prestress-loss monitoring technique for prestressed concrete (PSC) girder structures that uses a vibration-based system identification method. First, the theoretical backgrounds of the prestress-loss monitoring technique and the system identification technique are presented. Second, vibration tests are performed on a lab-scaled PSC girder for which the modal parameter was measured for several prestress-force cases. A numerical modal analysis is performed by using an initial finite element (FE) model from the geometric, material, and boundary conditions of the lab-scaled PSC girder. Third, a vibration-based system identification is performed to update the FE model by identifying structural parameters since the natural frequency of the FE model became identical to the experimental results. Finally, the feasibility of the prestress-loss monitoring technique is evaluated for the PSC girder model by using the experimentally measured natural frequency and numerically identified natural frequency for several prestress-force cases.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.303-317
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• 2011

A specially designed tendon, which is proposed by embedding an FBG sensor into the center king cable of a 7-wire strand tendon, was applied to monitor the prestress force and load transfer of ground anchor. A series of tensile tests and a model pullout test were performed to verify the feasibility of the proposed smart tendon as a measuring sensor of tension force and load transfer along the tendon. The smart tendon has proven to be very effective for monitoring prestress force and load transfer by measuring the strain change of the tendon at the free part and the fixed part of ground anchor, respectively. Two 11.5 m long proto-type ground anchors were made simply by replacing a tendon with the proposed smart tendon and prestress forces of each anchor were monitored during the loading-unloading step using both FBG sensor embedded in the smart tendon and the conventional load cell. By comparing the prestress forces measured by the smart tendon and load cell, it was found that the prestress force monitored from the FBG sensor located at the free part is comparable to that measured from the conventional load cell. Furthermore, the load transfer of prestressing force at the tendon-grout interface was clearly measured from the FBGs distributed along the fixed part. From these pullout tests, the proposed smart tendon is not only expected to be an alternative monitoring tool for measuring prestress force from the introducing stage to the long-term period for health monitoring of the ground anchor but also can be used to improve design practice through determining the economic fixed length by practically measuring the load transfer depth.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.881-901
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• 2016

In this study, a method to compensate the effect of temperature variation on impedance responses which are used for prestress-loss monitoring in prestressed concrete (PSC) girders is presented. Firstly, an impedance-based technique using a mountable lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) interface is presented for prestress-loss monitoring in the local tendon-anchorage member. Secondly, a cross-correlation-based algorithm to compensate the effect of temperature variation in the impedance signatures is outlined. Thirdly, lab-scale experiments are performed on a PSC girder instrumented with a mountable PZT interface at the tendon-anchorage. A series of temperature variation and prestress-loss events are simulated for the lab-scale PSC girder. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed method is experimentally verified for prestress-loss monitoring in the PSC girder under temperature-varying conditions and prestress-loss events.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.375-393
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• 2015

In this study, local dynamic characteristics of mountable PZT interfaces are numerically analyzed to verify their feasibility on impedance monitoring of the prestress-loss in tendon anchorage subsystems. Firstly, a prestressed tendon-anchorage system with mountable PZT interfaces is described. Two types of mountable interfaces which are different in geometric and boundary conditions are designed for impedance monitoring in the tendon-anchorage subsystems. Secondly, laboratory experiments are performed to evaluate the impedance monitoring via the two mountable PZT interfaces placed on the tendon-anchorage under the variation of prestress forces. Impedance features such as frequency-shifts and root-mean-square-deviations are quantified for the two PZT interfaces. Finally, local dynamic characteristics of the two PZT interfaces are numerically analyzed to verify their performances on impedance monitoring at the tendon-anchorage system. For the two PZT interfaces, the relationships between structural parameters and local vibration responses are examined by modal sensitivity analyses.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2011

그라운드 앵커공법은 현재 우리나라에서 가장 일반적으로 사용되는 사면보강공법들 중 하나이다. 그러므로 앵커로 보강된 사면의 안정성을 장기간 확인하기 위해서는 그라운드 앵커의 긴장력을 측정하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 그러나 전통적인 로드 셀 방식의 측정기술을 제외하고는 특별한 기술이 개발된 것이 없다. 본 논문에서는 지반구조물의 보강을 위해 널리 사용되는 그라운드 앵커의 단기 및 장기 장력을 측정하기 위해 기존에 현장에서 주로 사용되는 스트레인게이지 또는 V/W 타입 로드 셀을 대체할 수 있는 새로운 방법에 대하여 기술하였다. 사용된 센서는 스트레인게이지 또는 V/W타입의 센서에 비해 크기가 작고 내구성이 우수하며 전자기파에 의한 노이즈 발생이 없는 광섬유 브래그격자(Fiber Bragg Grating ; FBG)센서이다. FBG 센서를 내장한 7연 강연선을 이용하여 원하는 위치에서 변형률 감지가 가능한 인장형 앵커를 제작하고 앵커 정착장을 연암과 화강풍화토 지반조건에 각각 2세트(set)씩 시공하여 현장인발실험을 수행하였다. 재하-제하단계를 포함하는 전 하중단계에서 FBG센서로 측정된 변형률로부터 장력 모니터링을 수행하였고 기존 로드 셀로 측정된 결과와 비교하였다. 현장 인발실험 결과, 제안된 광섬유 센서를 이용한 그라운드 앵커의 시공 중 긴장력 측정결과 실내 UTM 결과와 달리 약간의 차이가 있으나 실용적인 차원에서는 충분히 활용 가능한 것으로 확인되었다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.21-31
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 구조 케이블의 인장력 모니터링을 위한 무선 임피던스 센서노드를 개발하였다. 이를 위해 다음과 같은 연구가 수행되었다. 첫째, 경제적이고 자동화된 구조 케이블의 인장력 모니터링을 위한 무선임피던스 센서노드를 설계/제작 하였다. 둘째, 자동화된 인장력 모니터링을 위해 임피던스 기반 모니터링 기법을 무선 센서노드에 내장하였다. 셋째, 측정 범위가 제한적인 무선임피던스 센서노드의 한계점을 극복하기 위하여 인터페이스 와셔를 이용하는 구조케이블 인장력 모니터링 기법을 제안하였다. 마지막으로 내장형/외장형 텐던을 가지는 모형 프리스트레스트 콘크리트 거더에 대하여 무선임피던스 센서노드와 인터페이스 와셔를 이용하는 모니터링 기법의 적용성을 평가하였다.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.699-706
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• 2015

이 연구에서는 FBG센서가 내장된 강연선을 포스트텐션 UHPC 교량(길이 11.0m, 폭 5.0m, 높이 0.6m)에 적용하고 약 1년간의 긴장력 장기모니터링 결과를 정리하였다. 그리고 초기 도입 긴장력과 차량재하시험을 통하여 콘크리트 내부 강연선의 긴장력 변화를 계측하고 계측결과에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 연구결과, 이 연구에서 제안하는 콘크리트 내부 긴장력 측정방법이 공영 중인 교량에서 외력으로 인한 콘크리트 내부의 작은 프리스트레스 변화를 효과적으로 측정할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 아울러 장기 계측결과를 이용하여 응력변화에 의한 유효변형률을 정확하게 얻기 위해서는 온도보정에 사용되는 열팽창계수의 선택이 매우 중요함을 알 수 있었다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.463-488
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• 2018

In the last decades, research efforts have been spent to investigate the effect of prestressing on the dynamic behaviour of prestressed concrete (PSC) beams. Whereas no agreement has been reached among the achievements obtained by different Researchers and among the theoretical and the experimental results for simply supported beams, very few researches have addressed this problem in continuous PSC beams. This topic is, indeed, worthy of consideration bearing in mind that many relevant bridges and viaducts in the road and railway networks have been designed and constructed with this structural scheme. In this paper the attention is, thus, focused on the dynamic features of continuous PSC bridges taking into account the effect of prestressing. This latter, in fact, contributes to the modification of the distribution of the bending stress along the beam, also by means of the secondary moments, and influences the flexural stiffness of the beam itself. The dynamic properties of a continuous, two spans bridge connected by a nonlinear spring have been extracted by solving an eigenvalue problem in different linearized configurations corresponding to different values of the prestress force. The stiffness of the nonlinear spring has been calculated considering the mechanical behaviour of the PSC beam in the uncracked and in the cracked stage. The application of the proposed methodology to several case studies indicates that the shift from the uncracked to the cracked stage due to an excessive prestress loss is clearly detectable looking at the variation of the dynamic properties of the beam. In service conditions, this shift happens for low values of the prestress losses (up to 20%) for structure with a high value of the ratio between the permanent load and the total load, as happens for instance in long span, continuous box bridges. In such conditions, the detection of the dynamic properties can provide meaningful information regarding the structural state of the PSC beam.