APPLICATION OF THE STRAIN ENERGY DAMAGE DETECTION METHOD TO PLATE-LIKE STRUCTURES

✍ Scribed by P. Cornwell; S.W. Doebling; C.R. Farrar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 387 KB
• Volume: 224
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-460X
• DOI: 10.1006/jsvi.1999.2163

✦ Synopsis

In this paper the problem of using measured modal parameters to detect and locate damage in plate-like structures is investigated. Many methods exist for locating damage in a structure given the modal properties before and after damage. Unfortunately, many of these methods require a correlated ®nite element model or mass normalized mode shapes. If the modal properties are obtained using ambient excitation then the mode shapes will not be mass normalized. In this paper a method based on the changes in the strain energy of the structure will be discussed. This method was originally developed for beam-like structures, that is, structures characterized by one-dimensional curvature. In this paper the method will be generalized to plate-like structures that are characterized by two-dimensional curvature. This method only requires the mode shapes of the structure before and after damage. To evaluate the eectiveness of the method it will be applied to both simulated and experimental data.