Experimental Verification for Cable Force Estimation Using Handheld Shooting of Smartphones

Currently, due to the rapid development and popularization of smartphones, the usage of ubiquitous smartphones has attracted growing interest in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). The portable and rapid cable force measurement for cable-supported structures, such as a cable-stayed bridge and a suspension bridge, has an important and practical significance in the evaluation of initial damage and the recovery of transportation networks. The extraction of dynamic characteristics (natural frequencies) of cable is considered as an essential issue in the cable force estimation. Therefore, in this study, a vision-based approach is proposed for identifying the natural frequencies of cable using handheld shooting of smartphone camera. The boundary of cable is selected as a target to be tracked in the region of interest (ROI) of video image sequence captured by smartphone camera, and the dynamic characteristics of cable are identified according to its dynamic displacement responses in frequency domain. The moving average is adopted to eliminate the noise associated with the shaking of smartphone camera during measurement. A laboratory scale cable model test and a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge test are carried out to evaluate the proposed approach. The results demonstrate the feasibility of using smartphone camera for cable force estimation.

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