Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 June 2024 | Viewed by 2314

Special Issue Editors

College of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: structural health monitoring; optical fiber sensor; strain transfer analysis; smart composite structures; damage identification; performance assessment
School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: optical fiber sensing technology; vibration sensor; smart monitoring; wireless energy transmission technology; artificial intelligent algorithm
School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410082, China
Interests: computing in civil engineering; solid mechanics; structural mechanics; bridge engineering; structural materials
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue “Recent Developments in Structural Health Monitoring” aims to collect recent advances and developments in the structural health monitoring of buildings, bridges, dams, oil tanks, pipes and aerospace equipment. The safe operation of these important structures has always been a significant scientific problem. How to protect these structures from the disasters and maintain their regular function requires advanced sensing technology and smart structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Parameterical reflection analysis based on the measured data and data-motivated model updating are also critically significant. It determines the accuracy and reliability of the monitoring technique, which also influences the management scheme and rehabilitation measures. For this reason, this Special Issue intends to present contributions in advanced monitoring technologies (i.e., optical fiber sensing technology), feasible parametric reflection methods, time and frequency domain analysis, data-motivated model updating, damage identification and performance assessment methods. This Special Issue aims to cover original or review articles exploring innovations in SHM. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart sensing technology and SHM systems of structures;
  • Self-sensing structures to measure the parameters, such as stress (or force), strain (or deformation), crack, damage, temperature and pressure;
  • Optical fiber sensors and components in engineering;
  • Smart materials and structures with both self-sensing and self-healing functions;
  • Vibration testing based structural damage identification;
  • Dynamic analysis and modal parameter recognition;
  • Monitoring data motivated model updating;
  • Structural performance assessment;
  • Smart operation and management.

Dr. Huaping Wang
Dr. Pengfei Cao
Prof. Dr. Ping Xiang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • structural health monitoring
  • smart sensors and structures
  • damage identification
  • dynamic analysis
  • data-motivated model updating
  • performance assessment
  • buildings, bridges and dams
  • optical fiber sensing technology

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Damage Detection of Gantry Crane with a Moving Mass Using Artificial Neural Network
by Mohammad Safaei, Mahsa Hejazian, Siamak Pedrammehr, Sajjad Pakzad, Mir Mohammad Ettefagh and Mohammad Fotouhi
Buildings 2024, 14(2), 458; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14020458 - 07 Feb 2024
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Gantry cranes play a pivotal role in various industrial applications, and their reliable operation is paramount. While routine inspections are standard practice, certain defects, particularly in less accessible components, remain challenging to detect early. In this study, first a finite element model is [...] Read more.
Gantry cranes play a pivotal role in various industrial applications, and their reliable operation is paramount. While routine inspections are standard practice, certain defects, particularly in less accessible components, remain challenging to detect early. In this study, first a finite element model is presented, and the damage is introduced using random changes in the stiffness of different parts of the structure. Contrary to the assumption of inherent reliability, undetected defects in crucial structural elements can lead to catastrophic failures. Then, the vibration equations of healthy and damaged models are analyzed to find the displacement, velocity, and acceleration of the different crane parts. The learning vector quantization neural network is used to train and detect the defects. The output is the location of the damage and the damage severity. Noisy data are then used to evaluate the network performance robustness. This research also addresses the limitations of traditional inspection methods, providing early detection and classification of defects in gantry cranes. The study’s relevance lies in the need for a comprehensive and efficient damage detection method, especially for components not easily accessible during routine inspections. Full article
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An Output-Only, Energy-Based, Damage Detection Method Using the Trend Lines of the Structural Acceleration Response
by Hadi Kordestani, Chunwei Zhang and Ali Arab
Buildings 2023, 13(12), 3007; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13123007 (registering DOI) - 01 Dec 2023
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Using the trendlines of an acceleration response as a tool to decompose a structural response is a new topic that was proposed by authors in 2020. This paper provides a numerical/experimental investigation of using a Savitzky–Golay filter (SGF) in a method to calculate [...] Read more.
Using the trendlines of an acceleration response as a tool to decompose a structural response is a new topic that was proposed by authors in 2020. This paper provides a numerical/experimental investigation of using a Savitzky–Golay filter (SGF) in a method to calculate the trendline and decompose building acceleration responses when subjected to a seismic load. Hence, this paper proposes an output-only, energy-based, damage detection method in which the trend lines of a building’s structural acceleration responses are used to locate the damage. For this purpose, an adjusted SGF is utilized to calculate an especial trend line for each floor’s acceleration response of the building structural model. The energy of these trend lines is then calculated and normalized. Two damage indices are used, of which, the second one is being proposed for the first time in this paper. The accuracy of the proposed method is numerically and experimentally investigated using a five-floor building structural model subjected to white noise excitation through a shake table. The results prove that the proposed method is capable of accurately locating and quantifying structural damages with a severity of more than 10% in a noisy environment. In view that the proposed method locates the damage with no need of determining the structural modal properties or parameters, it can be categorized as an online and quick structural damage detection method. Full article
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Dynamic Feature Identification of Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Laminates Based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Technology
by Cong Chen, Hua-Ping Wang, Jie Ma and Maihemuti Wusiman
Buildings 2023, 13(9), 2292; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13092292 - 08 Sep 2023
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Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have many advantages, and have been widely used in aerospace structures, buildings, bridges, etc. The analysis of dynamic response characteristics of CFRP composite structures is of great significance for promoting the development of smart composite structures. For this reason, [...] Read more.
Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites have many advantages, and have been widely used in aerospace structures, buildings, bridges, etc. The analysis of dynamic response characteristics of CFRP composite structures is of great significance for promoting the development of smart composite structures. For this reason, vibration experiments of CFRP laminates with surface-attached fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors under various dynamic loading conditions were carried out. Time- and frequency-domain analyses were conducted on the FBG testing signals to check the dynamic characteristics of the CFRP structure and the sensing performance of the installed sensors. The results show that the FBG sensors attached to the surface of the CFRP laminates can accurately measure the dynamic response and determine the excited position of the CFRP laminates, as well as invert the strain distribution of the CFRP laminates through the FBG sensors at different positions. By performing Fourier transform, short-time Fourier transform, and frequency domain decomposition (FDD) on the FBG sensing signals, the time–frequency information and the first eight modal frequencies of the excited CFRP structure can be obtained. The modal frequencies obtained by different excitation types are similar, which can be used for structural damage identification. The research in this paper clarifies the effectiveness and accuracy of FBG sensors in sensing the dynamic characteristics of CFRP structures, which can be used for performance evaluation of CFRP structures and will effectively promote the design and development of intelligent composite material structures. Full article
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