Experimental Verification of Substructure Identification for Damage Detection in Shear Buildings
Publication: Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 142, Issue 1
Abstract
Damage detection for civil structures is limited by several factors including poor signal-to-noise ratios, a large number of unknown parameters, and a limited set of measured responses. Global vibration techniques that track modal parameters often remain insensitive to common forms of structural damage. Moreover, large sets of identified parameters make inverse problems ill-conditioned. To overcome some of these limitations, researchers have advanced substructure identification as a methodology to directly detect local stiffness changes using measured responses to improve damage detection and scalability in civil structures. This paper develops a substructure identification estimator that identifies the story stiffness of a shear building. Concurrent with the estimator derivation, identified parameter confidence intervals are developed and identification performance is predicted. Using the developed estimator, experimental testing is performed on a 3.66-m (12-ft) four-story steel structure subject to base excitation. Several structural configurations are tested where the story-level stiffness is decreased by loosening floor-level connections. These changes simulate damage and are mostly detected by substructure identification within computed confidence intervals. The substructure identified parameters are compared against modal measures and found to be more sensitive to damage. Furthermore, the estimator’s performance follows predictions from the error analysis and motivates future work with identification assisted by structural control.
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Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully acknowledge the partial support of this work by the National Science Foundation, through awards CMMI 08-26634, 11-00528, and 11-33023, the ARCS Foundation, and the University of Southern California Provost Ph.D. Fellowship. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, the ARCS Foundation, or the University of Southern California.
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Journal of Engineering Mechanics
Volume 142 • Issue 1 • January 2016
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Received: Mar 25, 2014
Accepted: Jan 14, 2015
Published online: Jun 10, 2015
Discussion open until: Nov 10, 2015
Published in print: Jan 1, 2016
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