Comparative Study of Damage Detection Methods Based on Long-Gauge FBG for Highway Bridges

Damage detection of highway bridges is a significant part of structural heath monitoring. Conventional accelerometers or strain gauges utilized for damage detection have many shortcomings, especially their monitoring gauge length being too short, which would result in poor damage detection results. Under this circumstance, long-gauge FBG sensors as a novel optical sensor were developed to measure the macro-strain response of the structure. Based on this sensor, many derived damage detection methods were proposed. These methods exhibit various characteristics and have not been systematically compared. As a result, it is difficult to evaluate the state of the art and also leads to confusion for users to select. Therefore, a strict comparative study on three representative methods using long-gauge FBG was carried out. First, these methods' theoretical backgrounds and formats were reformulated and unified for better comparison. Then, based on validated vehicle-bridge coupling simulation, these methods' performances were tested through a series of parametric studies including various damage scenarios, vehicle types, speeds, road roughness and noise levels. The precision and reliability of three methods have been thoroughly studied and compared.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 20(2020), 13 vom: 28. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Shi-Zhi [VerfasserIn]
Feng, De-Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Han, Wan-Shui [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Comparative study
Damage detection
Highway bridges
Journal Article
Long-gauge FBG
Vehicle–bridge interaction

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Date Completed 06.07.2020

Date Revised 07.08.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s20133623

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311831206