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17 May 2005 Structural damage detection by wavelet transform and probabilistic neural network
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Abstract
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been applied in structural damage detection as a classifier, but generally a capable ANNs has to be trained with a certain amount of samples. When both damage locations and damage extents are to be identified, the amount of training samples is tremendous because of the combinations of damage locations and extents. By wavelet transform of the structure free motion equations, the Residual Wavelet Coefficient Vector (RWCV) is deduced. A damage feature parameter is defined as the ratio between RWCVs in two different frequency bands. This parameter has a unique property that it's sensitive only to damage locations, and is independent of damage extents. The damage feature parameters are then fed to the neural network for damage localization. After the damage sites are detected, the damage extent is further identified by another neural network with RWCVs as inputs. This two-phase approach for damage localization and extent identification can simply the neural network and reduce the training samples tremendously. Finally a numerical example is given for damage detection of a 10 DOFs system using the proposed approach.
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Guirong Yan, Zhongdong Duan, and Jinping Ou "Structural damage detection by wavelet transform and probabilistic neural network", Proc. SPIE 5765, Smart Structures and Materials 2005: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, (17 May 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.602012
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KEYWORDS
Wavelets

Neural networks

Damage detection

Wavelet transforms

Digital filtering

Fourier transforms

Artificial neural networks

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