Study on Evaluation Theory of Bridge Damage State and Methodology on Early Warning of Danger

Abstract

When evaluating and prewarning the damage state of bridges, the observation equation and state equation of bridge systems are not constructed in the existing methods, which would cause the evaluation results to be inconsistent with the actual damage state of bridges. Therefore, the existing methods have the problems of low evaluation accuracy, high false alarm rate, and poor real-time performance. In order to solve the above problems, this paper proposes a novel evaluation and judgment theory of bridge damage state and methodology on early warning of danger. The wavelet packet analysis method is used to construct the observation equation and state equation of bridge systems, which could provide a relevant basis for evaluating the damage state of bridges. Then, the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method is used to construct the fuzzy evaluation model of the bridge damage state to evaluate and judge the damage state of bridges. According to the evaluation results, combined with mathematical-statistical analysis methods and principal component analysis methods, the methodology on early warning of danger for bridge structures can be realized. The experimental results showed that the proposed method has high evaluation and judgment accuracy, low false alarm rate, and good real-time performance and reliability.