Online damage detection of earthquake-excited structure based on near real-time envelope extraction

Abstract

A robust real-time damage detection technique of earthquake-excited structures based on a new demodulation technique for nonlinear and non-stationary vibration signals through the identification of signal envelopes in real time is presented. In the present work, the need for the detection of envelope in a vibration signal in real time is addressed by reformulating the concept of Hermitian interpolation functions to a recursive Hermitian polynomial, which is a key entitlement of the present work. Once, the near real-time demodulation is achieved, the proposed framework proceeds to the newly developed error-adapted framework by addressing the errors accrued between the standard and generalized eigen perturbation formulation in the context of real-time estimation of proper orthogonal modes and linear normal modes. In the adaptive framework, the error is modeled as a feedback, which is constructed to account for the truncation in the order of eigen perturbation. In addition to the improved accuracy due to the envelope extraction, the proposed error-adapted eigen perturbation further improves the detectability over the currently available eigen perturbation–based real-time algorithms. To ensure robustness of the proposed algorithm, a new real-time damage indicator based on the maximum of principal eigenvector of the evolving transformed covariance matrix is proposed. The proposed modules together not only improve the detectability of the damage detection in real-time but also enhance the overall performance in presence of non-stationary excitation, that often mask the damage information in the higher energy zones of the amplitude and frequency-modulated response. Simulations for the proposed framework is performed by considering a 5 degrees-of-freedom linear and base-isolated nonlinear structural system driven by non-stationary stochastic excitations with damage simulated at intermediate floor at a particular time instant. Evidence of the near real-time demodulation and/or envelope removal from the signal and improved damage identification is also provided. An examination of the proposed framework using experimental data further validates the robustness of the proposed scheme.

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