Structural damage assessment under varying temperature conditions

Modal parameters such as natural frequencies and mode shapes are sensitive indicators of structural damage. However, they are not only sensitive to damage, but also to the environmental conditions such as, humidity, wind and most important, temperature. For civil engineering structures, modal changes produced by environmental conditions can be equivalent or greater than the ones produced by damage. This article proposes a damage detection method which is able to deal with temperature variations. The objective function correlates mode shapes and natural frequencies, and a parallel genetic algorithm handles the inverse problem. The numerical model of the structure assumes that the elasticity modulus of the materials is temperature-dependent. The algorithm updates the temperature and damage parameters together. Therefore, it is possible to distinguish between temperature effects and real damage events. Simulated data of a three-span bridge and experimental one of the I-40 Bridge validate the proposed methodology. Results show that the proposed algorithm is able to assess the experimental damage despite of temperature variations.

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