Structural health monitoring approach for detecting ice accretion on bridge cable using the Haar Wavelet Transform

Julia Andre; Anne Kiremidjian; Yizheng Liao; Christos Georgakis; Ram Rajagopal

doi:10.1117/12.2219392

20 April 2016 Structural health monitoring approach for detecting ice accretion on bridge cable using the Haar Wavelet Transform

Julia Andre, Anne Kiremidjian, Yizheng Liao, Christos Georgakis, Ram Rajagopal

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Proceedings Volume 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016; 98030F (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219392
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

Ice accretion on cables of bridge structures poses serious risk to the structure as well as to vehicular traffic when the ice falls onto the road. Detection of ice formation, quantification of the amount of ice accumulated, and prediction of icefalls will increase the safety and serviceability of the structure. In this paper, an ice accretion detection algorithm is presented based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). In the proposed algorithm, the acceleration signals obtained from bridge cables are transformed using wavelet method. The damage sensitive features (DSFs) are defined as a function of the wavelet energy at specific wavelet scales. It is found that as ice accretes on the cables, the mass of cable increases, thus changing the wavelet energies. Hence, the DSFs can be used to track the change of cables mass. To validate the proposed algorithm, we use the data collected from a laboratory experiment conducted at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). In this experiment, a cable was placed in a wind tunnel as ice volume grew progressively. Several accelerometers were installed at various locations along the testing cable to collect vibration signals.

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Julia Andre, Anne Kiremidjian, Yizheng Liao, Christos Georgakis, and Ram Rajagopal "Structural health monitoring approach for detecting ice accretion on bridge cable using the Haar Wavelet Transform", Proc. SPIE 9803, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2016, 98030F (20 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219392

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