• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.387-410
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• 2013

This paper deals with the damage assessment for isolators of base-isolated building systems considering the torsion-coupling (TC) effect by establishing damage indices. The damage indices can indicate the reduction in lateral stiffness of the isolator story as explicit formulas in terms of modal parameters. In addition, the damage location, expressed in terms of the estimated damage index and eccentricities before and after damage, is also presented. Numerical analysis shows that the proposed algorithms are applicable for general base-isolated multi-story TC buildings. A procedure from the analysis of seismic response to the implementation of damage indices is demonstrated by using a numerical case. A system identification technique is employed to extract modal parameters from seismic responses of a building. Results show that the proposed indices are capable of detecting the occurrence of damage and preliminarily estimating the location of damaged isolator.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 사장교와 같은 장대형 구조물의 손상위치를 판단할 수 있는 손상평가 기법을 개발하고, 개발한 기법의 성능을 실험을 통하여 검증하고자 하였다. 손상평가 기법은 무손상 데이터가 확보되지 않은 상태에서 구조물의 손상평가가 가능하고, 구조물의 응답 데이터의 분석만으로 손상위치를 판단할 수 있는 데이터를 추출하는 것을 목표로 하였다. 이러한 목표를 완성하기 위하여, 손상 위치 판별을 위하여 통계적 패턴인식 기술인 개선된 마할라노비스 거리(IMD : Improved Mahalanobis Distance) 이론에 기반하여 변동성이 고려된 손상평가 기법을 개발하였다. 개발한 손상평가 기법에는 구조물의 고유한 정보에 기반한 Simulation 프로그램을 반영하여 다양한 외력에 따른 구조물의 무손상 응답을 출력하도록 하였다. 개발한 기법의 성능을 실험적으로 평가하기 위하여 모형 사장교를 대상으로 케이블 손상실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과, 변동성이 고려된 손상평가 기법은 외력에 따른 무손상 데이터를 자동으로 출력하고, 출력된 무손상 데이터와 계측된 손상 데이터의 분석을 통하여 케이블의 손상 위치를 판단할 수 있는 정보를 추출하는 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.699-712
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• 2008

The effectiveness of wavelet transform in detecting delamination damages in multilayered composite beams and plates is studied here. The damaged composite beams and plates are modeled in finite element software ABAQUS and the first few mode shapes are obtained. The mode shapes of the damaged structures are then wavelet transformed. It is observed that the distribution of wavelet coefficients can identify the damage location of beams and plates by showing higher values of wavelet coefficients at the position of damage. The effectiveness of the method is studied for different boundary conditions, damage location and size for single as well as multiple delaminations in composite beams and plates. It is observed that both discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and continuous wavelet transform (CWT) can detect the presence and location of the damaged region from the mode shapes of the structures. DWT may be used to approximately evaluate the size of the delamination area, whereas, CWT is efficient to detect smaller delamination areas in composites.

• 한국BIM학회 논문집
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2020

As the number of aging bridges increases, more studies are being conducted on developing effective and reliable methods for the assessment and maintenance of bridges. With the advancement in new sensing systems and data learning techniques through AI technology, there is growing interests in how to evaluate bridges using these advanced techniques. This paper presents a CNN(Convolution Neural Network) deep learning based technique for evaluating the damage existence and for estimating the damage location in PSC bridges using static strain data. Simulation studies were conducted to investigate the proposed method with error analysis. Damage was simulated as the reduction in the stiffness of a finite element. A data learning model was constructed by applying the CNN technique as a type of deep learning. The damage status and its location were estimated using data set built through simulation. It was assumed that the strain gauges were installed in a regular interval under the PSC bridge girders. In order to increase the accuracy in evaluating damage, the squared error between the intact and measured strains are computed and applied for training the data model. Considering the damage occurring near the supports, the results of error analysis were compared according to whether strain data near the supports were included.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제49권3호
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• pp.411-425
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• 2014

This paper presents the processing of nonlinear features associated with a damage event by quadratic time-frequency distributions for damage identification in a frame structure. A time-frequency distribution is a function which distributes the total energy of a signal at a particular time and frequency point. As the occurrence of damage often gives rise to non-stationary, nonlinear structural behavior, simultaneous representation of the dynamic response in the time-frequency plane offers valuable insight for damage detection. The applicability of the bilinear time-frequency distributions of the Cohen class is examined for the damage assessment of a frame structure from the simulated acceleration data. It is shown that the changes in instantaneous energy of the dynamic response could be a good damage indicator. Presence and location of damage can be identified using Choi-Williams distribution when damping is ignored. However, in the presence of damping the Page distribution is more effective and offers better readability for structural damage detection.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.124-132
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• 2013

손상된 구조물의 동적응답신호를 역해석함으로써 손상위치와 정도를 파악할 수 있다. 일반적으로 손상 전 후 고유진동수의 변화로부터 강성의 감소량을 구하고, 모드형상의 변화로부터 손상위치를 파악할 수 있다. 토목구조물의 경우 동적 응답신호로부터 손상을 검출코자 하는 연구가 상당히 진행되었으며 실용화 되었다. 그러나 건축구조물의 경우 몇 가지 문제로 인하여 이에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 모드형상을 이용한 전단형 건물의 손상위치 추적방안을 제시 하고자 한다. 전단형 건물의 손상 전 후 1차 모드강성의 차이를 이용한 손상위치 추적지수를 이론적으로 고찰하였으며, 이를 Matlab 또는 MIDAS GENw와 같은 수치해석모델에 적용함으로써 손상위치추적기법의 타당성을 검증하였다. 또한 소형 진동대 실험을 수행하고 실측된 동적응답신호를 이용하여 손상위치를 추적함으로써 실구조물에 대한 적용성을 검토하였다. 진동대 실험결과 층강성이 25% 감소할 때 1차 모드 진동수는 12%증가 하였으며, 손상위치 지수는 손상 층에서 마이너스 값을 나타내었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.589-598
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• 2018

An attempt is conducted to explore the relationship between the macroscopic global damage and the local damage of shear-type RC frames. A story damage index, which can be expressed as multi-variate functions of modal parameters, is deduced based on the tridiagonal matrix of the shear-type frame. The global damage model is also originated from structural modal parameters. Due to the connection of modal damage indexes, the relationship between the macroscopic global damage and the local story damage is reasonably established. In order to validate the derivation, a case study is carried out via an 8-story shear-type frame. The sensitivities of modal damage indexes to the location and severity of local story damages are studied. The evolution of the global damage is investigated as well. Results show that the global damage is sensitive to the degree of story damage, but it's not sensitive to its location. As the number of the damaged stories increases, more and more modes will be involved. Meanwhile, the global damage evolution curve changes from the concave shape to the S-type and then finally transforms into the convex shape. Through the proposed story damage, modal damage and global damage model, a multi-level damage assessment method is established.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.37-51
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• 2000

Identification of damage location based on modal measurement is an important problem in structural health monitoring. The damage index method that attempts to evaluate the changes in modal strain energy distribution has been found to be effective under certain circumstances. In this paper two damage index methods using bending strain energy and shear strain energy have been evaluated for numerous cases at different locations and degrees of damage. The objective is to evaluate the feasibility of the damage index method to localize the damage on large span concrete bridge. Finite element models were used as the test structures. Finally this method was used to predict the damage location in an actual structure, using the results of a modal survey from a large concrete bridge.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제81권2호
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• pp.195-203
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• 2022

This paper presents the quantification and location damage detection of plane and space truss structures in a two-phase method to reduce the computations efforts significantly. In the first phase, a proposed damage indicator based on the residual force vector concept is used to get the suspected damaged members. In the second phase, using damage quantification as a variable, a teaching-learning based optimization algorithm (TLBO) is used to obtain the damage quantification value of the suspected members obtained in the first phase. TLBO is a relatively modern algorithm that has proved distinguished in solving optimization problems. For more verification of TLBO effeciency, the classical particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used in the second phase to make a comparison between TLBO and PSO algorithms. As it is clear, the first phase reduces the search space in the second phase, leading to considerable reduction in computations efforts. The method is applied on three examples, including plane and space trusses. Results have proved the capability of the proposed method to precisely detect the quantification and location of damage easily with low computational efforts, and the efficiency of TLBO in comparison to the classical PSO.

• 대한건축학회논문집:구조계
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.3-10
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• 2018

Damage location and extent of structure could be detected by the inverse analysis on dynamic response properties such as frequencies and mode shapes. In practice the measured difference of natural frequencies represent the stiffness change reliably, however the measured mode shape is insensitive for stiffness change, but provides spatial information of damage. The damage detection index on shear building structures is formulated in this study. The damage detection index could be estimated from mode shape and srory stiffness of undamaged structure and frequency difference between undamaged and damaged structure. For the verification of the observed damage detection method, the numerical analysis of Matlab and MIDAS and shacking table test were performed. In results, the damage index of damaged story was estimated so higher than undamaged stories that indicates the damaged story apparently.