Temperature Effect on Vibration Properties and Vibration-Based Damage Identification of Bridge Structures: A Literature Review

Abstract

In civil engineering structures, modal changes produced by environmental conditions, especially temperature, can be equivalent to or greater than the ones produced by damage. Therefore, it is necessary to distinguish the variations in structural properties caused by environmental changes from those caused by structural damages. In this paper, we present a review of the technical literature concerning variations in the vibration properties of civil structures under varying temperature conditions and damage identification methods for bridge structures. First, the literature on the effect of temperature on vibration properties is roughly divided into experimental and theoretical studies. According to the classification of theoretical research methods, the progress in research on the probability analysis method, the artificial intelligence method, and the optimization algorithm method in this field is reviewed. Based on the different methods of experimental research employed in this field, the experimental research is reviewed according to qualitative and quantitative analyses. Then, damage identification methods for bridge structures are reviewed, considering data-based and model-based methods. Finally, different research methods are summarized.

Thermal behaviors of bridges — A literature review

“…In this work, previous studies on temperature distributions and the temperature actions of various types of bridges were reviewed, including beam bridges, arch bridges, cable-stayed bridges, and suspension bridges. This work extends the existing reviews (Luo et al, 2022;Xia et al, 2012;Zhou and Yi, 2013) by focusing on temperature distribution and static temperature actions. The investigation methods cover the site/laboratory test, theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and field monitoring.…”

“…Given that the variation in the modal properties caused by the varying temperatures may mask those caused by the structural damage (Farrar et al, 1994;Peeters et al, 2000Peeters et al, , 2001, the effects of temperature on damage identification should be eliminated or minimized (Bao et al, 2012;Fan et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2018b). This topic has been reviewed by Xia et al (2012), Su et al (2020), and Luo et al (2022). The emphasis of this work will be laid on the static temperature behaviors of bridges, including the temperature-induced deformations and stress/strain in the bridges.…”

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Inclined Curved Crack Composite Beam: Experimental and Computational Analysis with Recycled Aluminum Composite Materials and Comparison with an Artificial Neural Network

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