A method for identifying damage in a truss bridge under normal traffic loads is developed. The static-based method uses only strain measurements at a few degrees of freedom as input to the identification procedure. In this paper, damage in the structure is modeled as a reduction in the cross-section area of the damaged element. The identification problem is formulated as a constrained optimization one, which is solved by using a genetic algorithm (GA). The objective function is defined as the difference between the measured static strains and the analytically predicted strains obtained from a finite element model. By minimizing the objective function, the damage location and damage severity can be successfully identified. The method is demonstrated by using a plane truss bridge model, and the results show that the procedure is a robust method.
Damage Identification of Truss Bridge under Normal Traffic Loads
First International Conference on Transportation Engineering ; 2007 ; Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
09.07.2007
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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