Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model

Electromechanical impedance (EMI) based structural health monitoring is performed by measuring the variation in the impedance due to the structural local damage. The impedance signals are acquired from the piezoelectric patches that are bonded on the structural surface. The impedance variation, whic...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fan, X., Li, Jun, Hao, Hong
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2016
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE140101741
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46156
_version_ 1848757481140912128
author Fan, X.
Li, Jun
Hao, Hong
author_facet Fan, X.
Li, Jun
Hao, Hong
author_sort Fan, X.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Electromechanical impedance (EMI) based structural health monitoring is performed by measuring the variation in the impedance due to the structural local damage. The impedance signals are acquired from the piezoelectric patches that are bonded on the structural surface. The impedance variation, which is directly related to the mechanical properties of the structure, indicates the presence of local structural damage. Two traditional EMI-based damage detection methods are based on calculating the difference between the measured impedance signals in the frequency domain from the baseline and the current structures. In this paper, a new structural damage detection approach by analyzing the time domain impedance responses is proposed. The measured time domain responses from the piezoelectric transducers will be used for analysis. With the use of the Time Frequency Autoregressive Moving Average (TFARMA) model, a damage index based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is defined to identify the existence of the structural local damage. Experimental studies on a space steel truss bridge model in the laboratory are conducted to verify the proposed approach. Four piezoelectric transducers are attached at different locations and excited by a sweep-frequency signal. The impedance responses at different locations are analyzed with TFARMA model to investigate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is very sensitive and robust in detecting the bolt damage in the gusset plates of steel truss bridges.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T09:28:46Z
format Journal Article
id curtin-20.500.11937-46156
institution Curtin University Malaysia
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-14T09:28:46Z
publishDate 2016
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling curtin-20.500.11937-461562022-09-06T04:47:44Z Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model Fan, X. Li, Jun Hao, Hong Electromechanical impedance (EMI) based structural health monitoring is performed by measuring the variation in the impedance due to the structural local damage. The impedance signals are acquired from the piezoelectric patches that are bonded on the structural surface. The impedance variation, which is directly related to the mechanical properties of the structure, indicates the presence of local structural damage. Two traditional EMI-based damage detection methods are based on calculating the difference between the measured impedance signals in the frequency domain from the baseline and the current structures. In this paper, a new structural damage detection approach by analyzing the time domain impedance responses is proposed. The measured time domain responses from the piezoelectric transducers will be used for analysis. With the use of the Time Frequency Autoregressive Moving Average (TFARMA) model, a damage index based on Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is defined to identify the existence of the structural local damage. Experimental studies on a space steel truss bridge model in the laboratory are conducted to verify the proposed approach. Four piezoelectric transducers are attached at different locations and excited by a sweep-frequency signal. The impedance responses at different locations are analyzed with TFARMA model to investigate the effectiveness and performance of the proposed approach. The results demonstrate that the proposed approach is very sensitive and robust in detecting the bolt damage in the gusset plates of steel truss bridges. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46156 10.12989/sss.2016.18.3.501 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE140101741 restricted
spellingShingle Fan, X.
Li, Jun
Hao, Hong
Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title_full Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title_fullStr Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title_full_unstemmed Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title_short Piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency ARMA model
title_sort piezoelectric impedance based damage detection in truss bridges based on time frequency arma model
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE140101741
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46156