Currently, there have been plenty of researches conducted for two main problems in structural health monitoring, damage and vehicle parameter identification on bridges. However, only a handful of methods could achieve these two functions synchronously, which would cause the redundancy of sensors also the rise of cost in monitoring system. In this paper, a method to identify damage and vehicle parameters, such as axle load, wheelbase and velocity on a bridge simultaneously was proposed, based on the influence line of long-gauge strain. The influence line of long-gauge strain was derived primarily according to conventional strain influence line theory, at the basis of which the relationships among the local element bending stiffness of bridge, vehicle parameters and long-gauge strain were figured out then. The two order difference of long-gauge strain was chosen as the key index to found this identification method. Finally, to verify the reliability of this method, a set of numerical simulations was conducted, whose results showed that this method exhibited good performance.
Long-gauge fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain response is characterized by sensitivity to local damage and obtaining global behavior (e.g., deflection, natural frequency) of structures, and can be measured with high-accuracy and high sampling frequency. Recent research about performance assessment of engineering structures using long-gauge FBG sensors is reviewed in this paper. Firstly, description of long-gauge FBG sensing technique is presented. Secondly, assessment methods of structural local behavior using long-gauge strain response are classified into two types (time domain-based and frequency domain-based method). Time domain-based methods are those methods which directly use long-gauge strain to identify local damage of structures. Frequency domain-based methods are those methods which extract frequency features (e.g., modal macro-strain) of structures for damage identification. Thirdly, assessment methods of structural global behavior using long-gauge strain response are summarized. These methods include calculating deflection of structures from long-gauge strain response, extraction of natural frequency from dynamic strain time-history, and calculating displacement mode shape from modal macro-strain. Finally, suggestions on the selection of methods for performance assessment of engineering structures are proposed and some challenges are discussed.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.