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Development of a Damage Indicator Based on Detection of High-Frequency Transients Monitored in Bridge Piers During Earthquake Ground Shaking

Real-time structural health monitoring is a well established tool for post-earthquake damage estimation. A key component in the monitoring campaign is the approach used for processing the data from the structural health monitoring system. There is a large body of literature on signal processing approaches aimed at identifying ground-motion induced damage in civil engineering structures. This dissertation expands on a specific subgroup of processing approaches dealing with the identification of damage induced high-frequency transients in the monitoring data. The underlying intuition guiding the current research can be formulated in the following hypothesis - the time difference between the occurrence of a high-frequency transient and the closest deformation extremum forward in time is proportional to the degree of damage. A mathematical deduction is provided in support of the above hypothesis followed by a set of shaking table tests. For the purposes of this research two shaking table tests of reinforced concrete bridge piers were performed. Data from a shaking table test performed by another research group was also analyzed. The cases in which the proposed procedure could find a practical application are examined along with the present limitations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unitn.it/oai:iris.unitn.it:11572/272732
Date05 August 2020
CreatorsZhelyazkov, Aleksandar
ContributorsZhelyazkov, Aleksandar, Zonta, Daniele, Bursi, Oreste Salvatore
PublisherUniversità degli studi di Trento, place:Trento
Source SetsUniversità di Trento
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationfirstpage:1, lastpage:109, numberofpages:109

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