Numerical study on interface debonding detection mechanisms with 2D spectral element method for concrete-filled steel tube using embedded PZT sensor

Interface debonding detection approaches based on stress wave measurement for concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) members have received a great deal of attention in civil and infrastructural engineering societies. The development of efficient computing approaches to investigate the mechanisms of the interface debonding detection approaches and the effect of interface debonding on wave propagation within CFST members is critical. In this study, the wave propagation within the cross section of CFST members with and without interface debonding under a single point excitation force is simulated with a two-dimensional (2D) spectral element method (SEM) at first and that of CFST models coupled with a surface-mounted piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) actuator and an embedded PZT sensor in the concrete core under continuous and sweep sinusoidal signals is simulated with the 2D SEM and a piezoelectric spectral element. The debonding defect is modeled by removing concrete elements between the steel tube and the concrete core. Results show that interface debonding affects the wave propagation process, the output potentials of the embedded PZT sensors as well as the displacement responses at different locations of CFST specimens obviously. Rayleigh damping identified from experiments is introduced to the SEM models to reflect wave attenuation in the coupled models. The effect of interface debonding on the amplitude, the Fourier spectra and the wavelet packet energy of stress waves are analyzed. For comparison, another numerical model in which the PZT actuator is not located near the interface debonding defect is studied numerically and the effect of the debonding defect on the response of the embedded PZT sensor is illustrated. SEM provides an efficient way to simulate stress wave propagation and to understand the mechanisms of interfacial debonding defect detection for CFSTs with PZT technique.

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