2015/01/08 by Unai Ugalde, Javier Anduaga, Ugalde, U. +5
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Non-Destructive Testing Techniques #Structural Health Monitoring Techniques #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1501.01905
openalex publication_date 2015/01/08 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A novel damage localization method is proposed, which is based on a substructuring approach and makes use of Vector Auto-Regressive with eXogenous input (VARX) models. The substructuring approach aims to divide the monitored structure into several multi-DOF isolated substructures. Later, each individual substructure is modeled by a VARX model, and the health of each substructure is determined analyzing the variation of the VARX model. The method allows to detect whether the isolated substructure is damaged, and besides allows to locate the damage within the substructure. Only measured displacement data is required to estimate the isolated substructure's VARX model. Moreover, it is not necessary to have a priori knowledge of the structural model. The proposed method is validated by simulations of an eight-storey shear building.