Damage detection in beams by roughness analysis

Jialai Wang

doi:10.1117/12.657269

11 April 2006 Damage detection in beams by roughness analysis

Jialai Wang

Proceedings Volume 6174, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems; 61741J (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.657269
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A new damage detection technique using the roughness profile of structural mode shape is developed in this study. In this method, the spatially distributed signal (e.g., displacements or mode shapes) of a damaged structure is treated as an engineering surface. Irregularity of the surface induced by damage in beam-type structure is then treated as the roughness of the surface. A simple algorithm is developed to extract the roughness profile from the surface. The location and severity of damage is then determined by a sudden change on the roughness profile. This method is then applied to the mode shapes of cracked and delaminated beams obtained analytically, from which the damage location and size are determined successfully. As verifications, the proposed method is further applied on the experimentally measured curvature mode shapes to detect damage in carbon/epoxy composite beams. The successful detection of crack and delamination damage in the composite beams demonstrates that the new technique developed in this study can be used efficiently and effectively in damage identification and health monitoring of beam-type structures.

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Jialai Wang "Damage detection in beams by roughness analysis", Proc. SPIE 6174, Smart Structures and Materials 2006: Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, 61741J (11 April 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.657269

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