Vibration-based Damage Assessment and Residual Capacity Estimation of Bridges

Vibration-based Damage Assessment and Residual Capacity Estimation of Bridges
Author: Reza Baghaei Naeini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9781124521749

In this study, various aspects of vibration-based damage assessment of bridge structures are investigated. Results of application of novel methodologies in vibration-based damage assessment of structures in the presence of wide range of real seismic damage and from noisy and incomplete measurements are presented and discussed. The first part of this dissertation is devoted to experimental modal analysis. Two output-only and input-output system identification techniques are applied for identification of modal properties of the bridge from ambient vibrations and responses to high amplitude earthquake excitations respectively. An optimization-based finite element (FE) model updating methodology is applied for identification of damage characteristics by monitoring the variations in stiffness properties of critical elements of the bridge. A hybrid optimization procedure based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) and quasi-Newton optimization techniques is implemented for finding the best set of FE model parameters that minimizes the objective functions. Two objective functions are defined expressing the discrepancy between the measured and analytical response characteristics in time and modal domains. The meaningful agreement between FE model parameters identified using time and modal domains data with experimental stiffness indices indicates the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed damage identification procedure. In the final part of the dissertation, two vibration-based procedures are presented and applied for investigation of the consequences of damage in collapse capacity and functionality status of the bridge. The first procedure takes advantage of a double-integration and filtering routine to estimate the maximum drift ratios experienced by the lateral force resisting elements of the bridge from acceleration measurements. Estimated drift ratios along with pushover curves of the corresponding elements are used to calculate the ductility-based residual capacity of the elements and the bridge. The second procedure utilizes the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) curves for estimation of collapse capacity of the bridge. A new approach for generation of FE model realizations of the earthquake damaged structures is proposed and applied. Generated FE realizations of the damaged bridge are used to estimate the collapse capacity of the structure. Amount of loss in collapse capacity along with seismic hazard characteristics at the bridge site and a set of tagging criteria are utilized for tagging and determination of the functionality status of the damaged bridge. Accuracy and reliability of the residual capacity estimation procedures are evaluated and verified by the results of a shake table experiment on a large-scale model of a reinforced concrete bridge.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2
Author: Juan Caicedo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319547771

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the second volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of the Dynamics of Civil Structures, including papers on: Modal Parameter Identification Dynamic Testing of Civil Structures Control of Human Induced Vibrations of Civil Structures Model Updating Damage Identification in Civil Infrastructure Bridge Dynamics Experimental Techniques for Civil Structures Hybrid Simulation of Civil Structures Vibration Control of Civil Structures System Identification of Civil Structures

Deep Learning Applications, Volume 2

Deep Learning Applications, Volume 2
Author: M. Arif Wani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789811567582

This book presents selected papers from the 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE ICMLA 2019). It focuses on deep learning networks and their application in domains such as healthcare, security and threat detection, fault diagnosis and accident analysis, and robotic control in industrial environments, and highlights novel ways of using deep neural networks to solve real-world problems. Also offering insights into deep learning architectures and algorithms, it is an essential reference guide for academic researchers, professionals, software engineers in industry, and innovative product developers.

Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision

Life Cycle Analysis and Assessment in Civil Engineering: Towards an Integrated Vision
Author: Robby Caspeele
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 3160
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351857576

This volume contains the papers presented at IALCCE2018, the Sixth International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE2018), held in Ghent, Belgium, October 28-31, 2018. It consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB device with full papers including the Fazlur R. Khan lecture, 8 keynote lectures, and 390 technical papers from all over the world. Contributions relate to design, inspection, assessment, maintenance or optimization in the framework of life-cycle analysis of civil engineering structures and infrastructure systems. Life-cycle aspects that are developed and discussed range from structural safety and durability to sustainability, serviceability, robustness and resilience. Applications relate to buildings, bridges and viaducts, highways and runways, tunnels and underground structures, off-shore and marine structures, dams and hydraulic structures, prefabricated design, infrastructure systems, etc. During the IALCCE2018 conference a particular focus is put on the cross-fertilization between different sub-areas of expertise and the development of an overall vision for life-cycle analysis in civil engineering. The aim of the editors is to provide a valuable source of cutting edge information for anyone interested in life-cycle analysis and assessment in civil engineering, including researchers, practising engineers, consultants, contractors, decision makers and representatives from local authorities.

Accurate and Scalable Bridge Health Monitoring Using Drive-by Vehicle Vibrations

Accurate and Scalable Bridge Health Monitoring Using Drive-by Vehicle Vibrations
Author: Jingxiao Liu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN:

The objective of this research is to achieve accurate and scalable bridge health monitoring (BHM) by learning, integrating, and generalizing the monitoring models derived from drive-by vehicle vibrations. Early diagnosis of bridge damage through BHM is crucial for preventing more severe damage and collapses that could lead to significant economic and human losses. Conventional BHM approaches require installing sensors directly on bridges, which are expensive, inefficient, and difficult to scale up. To address these limitations, this research uses vehicle vibration data when the vehicle passes over the bridge to infer bridge conditions. This drive-by BHM approach builds on the intuition that the recorded vehicle vibrations carry information about the vehicle-bridge interaction (VBI) and thus can indirectly inform us of the dynamic characteristics of the bridge. Advantages of this approach include the ability for each vehicle to monitor multiple bridges economically and eliminating the need for on-site maintenance of sensors and equipment on bridges. Though the drive-by BHM approach has the above benefits, implementing it in practice presents challenges due to its indirect measurement nature. In particular, this research tackles three key challenges: 1) Complex vehicle-bridge interaction. The VBI system is a complex interaction system, making mathematical modeling difficult. The analysis of vehicle vibration data to extract the desired bridge information is challenging because the data have complex noise conditions as well as many uncertainties involved. 2) Limited temporal information. The drive-by vehicle vibration data contains limited temporal information at each coordinate on the bridge, which consequently restricts the drive-by BHM's capacity to deliver fine-grained spatiotemporal assessments of the bridge's condition. 3) Heterogeneous bridge properties. The damage diagnostic model learned from vehicle vibration data collected from one bridge is hard to generalize to other bridges because bridge properties are heterogeneous. Moreover, the multi-task nature of damage diagnosis, such as detection, localization, and quantification, exacerbates the system heterogeneity issue. To address the complex vehicle-bridge interaction challenge, this research learns the BHM model through non-linear dimensionality reduction based on the insights we gained by formulating the VBI system. Many existing physics-based formulations make assumptions (e.g., ignoring non-linear dynamic terms) to simplify the drive-by BHM problem, which is inaccurate for damage diagnosis in practice. Data-driven approaches are recently introduced, but they use black-box models, which lack physical interpretation and require lots of labeled data for model training. To this end, I first characterize the non-linear relationship between bridge damage and vehicle vibrations through a new VBI formulation. This new formulation provides us with key insights to model the vehicle vibration features in a non-linear way and consider the high-frequency interactions between the bridge and vehicle dynamics. Moreover, analyzing the high-dimensional vehicle vibration response is difficult and computationally expensive because of the curse of dimensionality. Hence, I develop an algorithm to learn the low-dimensional feature embedding, also referred to as manifold, of vehicle vibration data through a non-linear and non-convex dimensionality reduction technique called stacked autoencoders. This approach provides informative features for achieving damage estimation with limited labeled data. To address the limited temporal information challenge, this research integrates multiple sensing modalities to provide complementary information about bridge health. The approach utilizes vibrations collected from both drive-by vehicles and pre-existing telecommunication (telecom) fiber-optic cables running through the bridge. In particular, my approach uses telecom fiber-optic cables as distributed acoustic sensors to continuously collect bridge dynamic strain responses at fixed locations. In addition, drive-by vehicle vibrations capture the input loading information to the bridge with a high spatial resolution. Due to extensively installed telecom fiber cables on bridges, the telecom cable-based approach also does not require on-site sensor installation and maintenance. A physics-informed system identification method is developed to estimate the bridge's natural frequencies, strain and displacement mode shapes using telecom cable responses. This method models strain mode shapes based on parametric mode shape functions derived from theoretical bridge dynamics. Moreover, I am developing a sensor fusion approach that reconstructs the dynamic responses of the bridge by modeling the vehicle-bridge-fiber interaction system that considers the drive-by vehicle and telecommunication fiber vibrations as the system input and output, respectively. To address the heterogeneous bridge properties challenge, this research generalizes the monitoring model for one bridge to monitor other bridges through a hierarchical model transfer approach. This approach learns a new manifold (or feature space) of vehicle vibration data collected from multiple bridges so that the features transferred to such manifold are sensitive to damage and invariant across multiple bridges. Specifically, the feature is modeled through domain adversarial learning that simultaneously maximizes the damage diagnosis performance for the bridge with available labeled data while minimizing the performance of classifying which bridge (including those with and without labeled data) the data came from. Moreover, to learn multiple diagnostic tasks (including damage detection, localization, and quantification) that have distinct learning difficulties, the framework formulates a feature hierarchy that allocates more learning resources to learn tasks that are hard to learn, in order to improve learning performance with limited data. A new generalization risk bound is derived to provide the theoretical foundation and insights for developing the learning algorithm and efficient optimization strategy. This approach allows a multi-task damage diagnosis model developed using labeled data from one bridge to be used for other bridges without requiring training data labels from those bridges. Overall, this research offers a new approach that can achieve accurate and scalable BHM by learning, integrating, and generalizing monitoring models learned from drive-by vehicle vibrations. The approach enables low-cost and efficient diagnosis of bridge damage before it poses a threat to the public, which could avoid the enormous loss of human lives and property.

Experimental and Analytical Evaluation of Residual Capacity of Corrosion-Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders

Experimental and Analytical Evaluation of Residual Capacity of Corrosion-Damaged Prestressed Concrete Bridge Girders
Author: Ali Alfailakawi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Prestressed concrete beams
ISBN:

The durability of infrastructure components, such as prestressed concrete bridge beams, can be significantly affected by long-term deterioration associated with corrosion. Corrosion is a major concern for bridges in Virginia, due to the frequent use of deicing salts during the winter, as well as the number of structures in marine environments. The residual capacity of corrosion damaged prestressed I-beams and box beams needs to be accurately estimated to determine if damaged bridges need to be posted, and to help with making informed decisions related to repair, rehabilitation and replacement of damaged bridges. This report presents the results of testing of six corrosion-damaged prestressed beams removed from existing bridges during their demolition. Three beams were Type II AASHTO I-beams extracted from the Lesner Bridge in Virginia Beach, and three were 48 in wide by 27 in deep box beams extracted from the Aden Road Bridge near Quantico, Virginia. Prior to testing, the beams were visually inspected and two types of non-destructive evaluations were performed to identify corrosion activity: resistivity measurements and half-cell potential measurements. The beams were then tested in the lab to determine their flexural strength. Following testing, samples of strand were removed and tested to determine their tensile properties. Cores were taken from the Aden Road beams and from both the beams and decks of the Lesner Bridge beams to determine compressive strength. Powdered concrete samples were removed to perform chloride concentration tests. The tested strengths of the beams were compared to calculated strengths using two methods for damage estimation and two different calculation approaches. The methods for damage estimation relied exclusively on visual inspections; one was the set of methods recommended by Naito et al. (2010), while the second was a modified method developed in this study from the current tests. The two calculation approaches were a strain compatibility method and the AASHTO LRFD method. Overall, the results yielded reasonable estimates of residual strength, except for one of the box beams that was discovered to have considerable water within the hollow cells. The final recommendations are that bridge inspectors develop detailed damage maps of corrosion-damaged beams, and that load raters use the Naito et al. method to get a conservative estimate of damage for both box beams and I-beams. Either method for calculating strength is valid, however the AASHTO LRFD method is simpler.