Characterization of gradually evolving structural deterioration in jack arch bridges using support vector machine
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- Conference Proceeding
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- Maintenance, Monitoring, Safety, Risk and Resilience of Bridges and Bridge Networks - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management, IABMAS 2016, 2016, pp. 2322 - 2327
- Issue Date:
- 2016-01-01
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© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, London. The main objective of structural health monitoring is to provide reliable information about the health state of the critical structures by implementing a damage characterization strategy to detect the presence of damage, location, severity as possibly failure prediction as soon as the damage occurs. This paper presents a robust approach to detect and characterize a gradually evolving damage based on time responses data captured from a steel reinforced concrete structure. The presented method is in the context of unsupervised and nonmodel-based approaches, hence, there is no need for any representative numerical/finite element model of the structure to be built. In this work, we propose one-class support vector machine as an anomaly detection method. One-class support vector machine fits well for damage diagnosis in structural health monitoring since there may exist many damaged patterns and one-class support vector machine can detect all of them as anomalies. To demonstrate the feasibility of the method in the detection and assessment of a gradually evolving deterioration, a test bed was established to replicate a concrete jack arch which is a main structural component on the Sydney Harbour Bridge – one of Australia’s iconic structures. The structure is a concrete cantilever beam with an arch section which is located on the eastern side of the bridge underneath the bus lane. It is assumed that the structure is subjected to Gaussian white noise excitation. A crack is introduced in the structure using a cutting saw and its length is progressively increased in four stages while the depth was constant; these four damage cases correspond to less than 0.5% reduction in the first three modes of the structure. The damage identification results using the presented approach demonstrated the feasibility of applying support vector machine as a learning technique for damage characterization in structural health monitoring. The method accurately separated two states of the structure and it was also capable to identify progressively increasing damage.
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