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  • Civil Engineering
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Computational Mechanics

Background:

  • Steel-reinforced concrete decks are vital in bridges and railways but vulnerable to impact damage.
  • Accurate impact identification is essential for structural health monitoring but challenging due to sensor placement limitations.
  • Inverse identification methods are promising but often suffer from ill-posedness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an effective inverse identification method for impact force on steel-reinforced concrete decks.
  • To enhance impact localization and time-history reconstruction accuracy.
  • To address the ill-posed nature of inverse problems in structural impact analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Application of the Landweber iterative regularization method for impact force identification.
  • Integration of a low-pass filter into the Landweber procedure to improve reconstruction.
  • Development of a standardized reconstruction error metric for accuracy assessment.
  • Utilizing a Gaussian profile for automated impact force localization.

Main Results:

  • The proposed Landweber-based method successfully identifies impact forces, including localization and time-history reconstruction.
  • The incorporation of a low-pass filter demonstrably augmented the reconstruction accuracy.
  • The standardized error metric provided a robust means for evaluating identification performance.
  • Experimental validation on a bridge deck confirmed the efficacy of the developed techniques.

Conclusions:

  • The Landweber method, enhanced with a low-pass filter, offers a reliable and computationally efficient solution for impact force identification in civil structures.
  • The proposed techniques provide a significant advancement in structural health monitoring, enabling better assessment of impact events.
  • Optimal sensor placement and regularization iterations are critical factors for successful impact identification, as discussed in the study.