The Sensitivity of Vibration Characteristics of Reinforced Concrete Beams under Incremental Static and Cyclic Loading

Abstract:

The use of changes in vibration properties for global damage detection and monitoring of existing concrete structures has received great research attention in the last three decades. To track changes in vibration properties experimentally, structures have been artificially damaged by a variety of scenarios. However, this procedure does not represent realistically the whole design-life degradation of concrete structures. This paper presents experimental work on a set of damaged reinforced concrete beams due to different loading regimes to assess the sensitivity of linear and non-linear vibration characteristics. Of the total set, three beams were subject to incremental static loading up to failure to simulate overloading, and two beams subject to 15 million loading cycles with varying amplitudes to produce an accelerated whole-life degradation scenario. To assess the vibration behaviour in both cases, swept sine and harmonic excitations were conducted at every damage level. The results show that resonant frequencies are not sensitive enough to damage due to cyclic loading, whereas cosh spectral and root mean square distances are more sensitive, yet more scattered. In addition, changes in non-linearity follow a softening trend for beams under incremental static loading and are significantly inconsistent for beams under cyclic loading. Amongst all examined characteristics, changes in modal stiffness are found to be most sensitive to damage and least scattered, but modal stiffness is tedious to compute due mainly to the difficulty of constructing restoring force surfaces from field measurements.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 569-570)
• Pages: 327-334
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.569-570.327
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Waleed I. Hamad, John S. Owen, Mohammed F.M. Hussein
• Keywords: Cyclic Loading, Damage Detection, Non-Linear Vibration, Reinforced Concrete (RC) Beam

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