Zhihai Xiang, Xiaowei Dai, Yao Zhang, Longqi Wang, Qiuhai Lu
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 123-124, 2011, DOI:10.3970/icces.2011.016.123
Abstract In this talk, we are going to introduce a new method that can detect the damage in bridge structures through the acceleration of a passing vehicle mounted with a tapping device. This method was inspired by the hunting behavior of woodpeckers and the idea of obtaining natural frequencies of bridge structures through the dynamic response of a passing vehicle [1].
Based on a simple vehicle-bridge interaction model, we analytically found out that the vehicle acceleration contains the damage information, which can be represented by the instantaneous stiffness Z as follows: (1)
where yB is the… More >
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