Applications of piezoelectric materials in structural health monitoring and repair: Selected research examples

WH Duan, Q Wang, ST Quek - Materials, 2010 - mdpi.com
The paper reviews the recent applications of piezoelectric materials in structural health
monitoring and repair conducted by the authors. First, commonly used piezoelectric …

Application of Hilbert‐Huang Transform in Structural Health Monitoring: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

B Chen, S Zhao, P Li - Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the development and application of HHT in the field of SHM in the last
two decades. The challenges and future trends in the development of HHT based …

An improved fracture approach to investigate the degradation of vibration characteristics for reinforced concrete beams under progressive damage

A Pranno, F Greco, P Lonetti, R Luciano… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This work presents a cohesive fracture modeling approach to investigate the damage effects
on the mechanical response of reinforced concrete beams in terms of degradation of …

Dynamic nonlinearities for identification of the breathing crack type damage in reinforced concrete bridges

S Voggu, S Sasmal - Structural Health Monitoring, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Reinforced concrete structures experience nonlinear vibration response because of
softening in concrete due to damage, which results in unstable vibration. Thus, considering …

Damage assessment of reinforced concrete beams using cost-effective MEMS accelerometers

SM Khan, MU Hanif, A Khan, MU Hassan… - Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Acquisition of vibration data using off-the-shelf equipment is a costly procedure, thus
constraining the research and development in developing countries. In this research, micro …

A revised Hilbert–Huang transformation based on the neural networks and its application in vibration signal analysis of a deployable structure

J Xun, S Yan - Mechanical Systems and signal processing, 2008 - Elsevier
A revised Hilbert–Huang method is proposed to deal with the non-linear and non-stationary
signals generated from any kinds of the sensors, in order to overcome shortcomings of the …

Damage identification of cracked reinforced concrete beams through frequency shift

A Benedetti, G Pignagnoli, M Tarozzi - Materials and Structures, 2018 - Springer
The safety evaluation of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges is of the outmost importance, both
for the early warning of critical states below a given safety margin and owing to plan …

Damage Identification in Cement-Based Structures: A Method Based on Modal Curvatures and Continuous Wavelet Transform

G Cosoli, M Martarelli, A Mobili, F Tittarelli, GM Revel - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Modal analysis is an effective tool in the context of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) since
the dynamic characteristics of cement-based structures reflect the structural health status of …

Structural damage quantification in shear buildings using mode shape slope ratio

K Roy - Structural Health Monitoring, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Mode shape-based techniques are very popular among researchers since the last two
decades and varying levels of success have been achieved towards identifying damage …

Experimental and finite element dynamic analysis of incrementally loaded reinforced concrete structures

N Pešić, S Živanović, J Dennis, J Hargreaves - Engineering structures, 2015 - Elsevier
This work investigates influence of damage in reinforced concrete (RC) structures on their
dynamic properties through modal testing and non-linear finite element (FE) analysis. Five …