Affiliation:
1. Department of Bridge Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China
2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
3. School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China
Abstract
The drive-by method has become a popular indirect approach for bridge damage inspection (BDI) because of its simplicity in deployment by evaluating the bridge health status solely via the vehicle dynamic response. Derived from the vehicle dynamic response, the recent proposed contact-point response involves no vibration signal with the vehicle frequency, bearing great potential for drive-by BDI. However, an appropriate methodology for the application of contact-point response in drive-by BDI remains lacking. The present study proposes a novel drive-by method, in which a new damage factor index, i.e., the characteristic wavelet coefficient (CWC), is established for bridge damage identification in an efficient and accurate manner. The CWC is obtained by analyzing the contact-point response via the continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (CEEMDAN) techniques. CEEMDAN is introduced to overcome the issue of modal aliasing and pseudo-frequency. First, the general framework of the proposed drive-by BDI method is introduced. Then, a demonstration case study is carried out to examine the effectiveness of the proposed method. Subsequently, a parametric study is carried out to explore the effects of several parameters on the performance of BDI including the scale factor, vehicle speed, environmental noise, and boundary effect. The results indicate that the proposed drive-by BDI method can better eliminate the mode mixing and pseudo-frequency problems during the extraction of the CWC, compared with the traditional ensemble empirical mode decomposition method. The extracted CWC curve is smooth, convenient for damage inspection, and has strong anti-noise performance. After adding white noise with a signal-to-noise ratio of 20, a bridge girder with a damage severity of 20% can be identified successfully. In addition, the selection of the scale factor is critical for bridge damage inspection based on the extracted CWC. The effective scale factor of the CWC extracted using the proposed method has a wide range, which improves the inspection efficiency. Finally, a low vehicle speed is beneficial to alleviate the adverse effect of the boundary effect on the damage inspection of bridge girder ends.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province
Subject
Building and Construction,Civil and Structural Engineering,Architecture
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6 articles.
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