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Area of Science:

  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Mechanical Vibrations

Background:

  • Structural joints are critical components in civil engineering, yet their damage is often difficult to detect.
  • Traditional modal analysis methods show limited sensitivity to localized joint damage in frame structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel method for identifying damage in semi-rigid joints of frame structures.
  • To enhance the sensitivity of modal information to local joint damage using additional virtual mass.
  • To accurately locate and quantify the extent of joint damage.

Main Methods:

  • Modeling of semi-rigid joints and construction of virtual structure frequency response.
  • Extraction of natural frequencies using the ERA (Eigenvalue Realization Algorithm) method.
  • Application of additional virtual masses to increase frequency sensitivity to joint damage.
  • Utilizing the Improved Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (IOMP) algorithm for enhanced accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated increased sensitivity of natural frequencies to joint damage by adding virtual masses.
  • Successfully performed qualitative identification of potential joint damage.
  • Achieved accurate identification of both damage location and extent.
  • Validated the method's effectiveness through numerical simulations on a three-story frame structure.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed virtual mass method effectively enhances the detection of semi-rigid joint damage in frame structures.
  • The integration of virtual mass and advanced algorithms like IOMP significantly improves damage identification accuracy.
  • This approach offers a promising tool for structural health monitoring in civil engineering applications.