Yongdong Yan^*, Youdong Si, Chunhua Lu, Keke Wu

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 225-238, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.022629

Abstract This research aims to investigate the effect of frost damage on chloride transportation mechanism in ordinary and fiber concrete with both theoretical and experimental methods. The proposed theoretical model takes into account the varying damage levels caused by concrete cover depth and freeze-thaw cycles, which are the two primary parameters affecting the expression of the chloride diffusion coefficient. In the experiment, three types of concrete were prepared: ordinary Portland concrete (OPC), polypropylene fiber concrete (PFC), and steel fiber concrete (SFC). These were then immersed in NaCl solution for 120 days after undergoing 10, 25, and 50 freeze-thaw cycles. The damage… More >

Dengfeng Su¹, Zizheng Jia^1,*, Qiang Zhu¹, Zhengguo Li¹, Banghong Chen¹, Dandan Zheng²

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 209-224, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.021257

Abstract Damage is one of the most important characteristics of rock failure. Studying the damage mechanism of rock blasting under the guiding effect of the water jet slot and revealing the mechanism of controlled blasting with water jet assistance are crucial. In this study, a rock-like material was chosen as the research object for the calibration experiment of the numerical model. The numerical simulation models were then established by ANSYS/LS-DYNA, and the blast-induced damage mechanism under the guiding effect of the water jet slot was analyzed according to the blasting theory. The results indicated that explosive energy accumulates toward the direction… More > Graphic Abstract

Jin Zhao, Yi Wang^*, Zhengwei Ma

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 159-173, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.09601

Abstract Viscoelastic damper is an effective passive damping device, which can reduce the seismic response of the structure by increasing the damping and dissipating the vibration energy of structures. It has a wide application prospect in actual structural vibration control because of simple device and economical material. In view of the poor seismic behaviors of assembled frame structure connections, various energy dissipation devices are proposed to improve the seismic performance. The finite element numerical analysis method is adopted to analyze relevant energy dissipation structural parameters. The response spectrum of a 7-story assembled frame structure combined the ordinary steel support, ordinary viscoelastic… More >

Kexin Zhang, Xinyuan Shen, Longsheng Bao, He Liu^*

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 131-158, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.023431

Abstract In this paper, the construction process of a cable-stayed bridge with corrugated steel webs was monitored. Moreover, the end performance of the bridge was verified by load test. Owing to the consideration of the bridge structure safety, it is necessary to monitor the main girder deflection, stress, construction error and safety state during construction. Furthermore, to verify whether the bridge can meet the design requirements, the static and dynamic load tests are carried out after the completion of the bridge. The results of construction monitoring show that the stress state of the structure during construction is basically consistent with the… More >

Yuling He, Shuai Li, Chao Zhang^*, Xiaolong Wang

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 115-130, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.022317

Abstract This paper proposed a new diagnosis model for the stator inter-turn short circuit fault in synchronous generators. Different from the past methods focused on the current or voltage signals to diagnose the electrical fault, the stator vibration signal analysis based on ACMD (adaptive chirp mode decomposition) and DEO3S (demodulation energy operator of symmetrical differencing) was adopted to extract the fault feature. Firstly, FT (Fourier transform) is applied to the vibration signal to obtain the instantaneous frequency, and PE (permutation entropy) is calculated to select the proper weighting coefficients. Then, the signal is decomposed by ACMD, with the instantaneous frequency and… More >

Yazeed Al-Radhi^1,*, Farzad Hejazi², Azmi Abdulkarim³, Ali Feroozi⁴

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 89-113, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.011439

Abstract Offshore steel structures are a common investment in oil and gas industries operating in shallow to medium depth seas. These structures have become increasingly popular since the mid-19th century, with a typical design life of 30-50 years. Despite their popularity, the structural integrity of existing offshore structures remains a controversial topic. Environmental loads and material degradation have been identified as significant factors that can compromise the structural integrity of offshore structures. To address this issue, this study aims to investigate the reserved strength capacity of a selected offshore structure located in the Malaysian Seas. The study will explore the effect… More >

Qi Feng¹, Zhengyue Ren², Dan Wang^3,*

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 71-88, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.024912

Abstract The dynamic elasticity modulus (E_d) is the most commonly used indexes for nondestructive testing to represent the internal damage of hydraulic concrete. Samples with a specific size is required when the transverse resonance method was used to detect the E_d, resulting in a limitation for field tests. The impact-echo method can make up defects of traditional detection methods for frost-resistance testing, such as the evaluation via the loss of mass or strength. The feasibility of the impact-echo method to obtain the relative E_d is explored to detect the frost-resistance property of large-volume hydraulic concretes on site. Results show that the… More >

Peng Geng^*, Ji Lu, Hongtao Ma, Guiyi Yang

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 1-22, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2023.018632

Abstract Accurate and reliable crack segmentation is a challenge and meaningful task. In this article, aiming at the characteristics of cracks on the concrete images, the intensity frequency information of source images which is obtained by Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) is fed into deep learning-based networks to enhance the ability of network on crack segmentation. To well integrate frequency information into network an effective and novel DWTA module based on the DWT and scSE attention mechanism is proposed. The semantic information of cracks is enhanced and the irrelevant information is suppressed by DWTA module. And the gap between frequency information and… More >

Alireza Doustvandi, Mehrzad Tahamouli Roudsari^*, Behnoush Niazi

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 55-70, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.017458

Abstract Liquid storage, particularly oil and petrochemical products which are considered hazardous liquid, are an important part of the oil industry. Thin-walled vertical cylindrical steel storage tanks are widely used in recent years. Due to high sensitivity of these structures in an earthquake and other external excitations may lead to catastrophic consequences. For instance, huge economic losses, environmental damages, and casualities, many studies have been done about these structures. past studies showed that liquid storage tanks, equipped with a floating roof, are potentially vulnerable while subjected to seismic loads and earthquake has been considered as one of the most destructive natural… More >

Wei Jiang^1,2,*, Zelin Cao^3,4

Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 37-54, 2023, DOI:10.32604/sdhm.2022.013444

Abstract The attenuation relationship of ground motion based on seismology has always been a front subject of engineering earthquake. Among them, the regional finite-fault source model is very important. In view of this point, the general characteristics of regional seism-tectonics, including the dip and depth of the fault plane, are emphasized. According to the statistics of regional seism-tectonics and focal mechanisms in Sichuan, China, and the sensitivity of estimated peak ground acceleration (PGA) attenuation is analyzed, and the dip angle is taken as an average of 70°. Based the statistics of the upper crustal structure and the focal depth of regional… More >