During the past few decades, nondestructive damage evaluation (NDE) techniques using
experimental dynamic test data are widely applied in structures. Technological advancements increase in costeffective
computing memory and speed, advances in sensors, and adaptation and advancements of finite element
method represent technical developments that have contributed to recent improvements in vibration based damage
detection without memory lackness and long calculation time. In addition, adaptation and advancements in
experimental techniques such as modal testing and development of linear and non-linear system identification
methods are both reason and results of the abovementioned improvements. Testing and vibration based damage
identification methods that are applied to structures have some advantages and disadvantages against each other.
Some of them are very easy to apply to structures, some are not. Some of them are very expensive, some are not.
Some of them are very complicated, some are not. Some of them need intensive and extra knowledge of testing and
identification. In this paper, an application of one of these NDE techniques is discussed, which is named Two Points
Condensation technique (TPC). This method helps to detect the damage without applying complicated calculation
by using acceleration data gathered during the test of the structure under free or ambient vibration. In this study,
the developed technique is applied to the experimental data of a steel truss bridge model structure after introducing
damage by removing an element from the specimen. The results show that the method detects the damage location
and level of damage.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Civil Engineering |
Journal Section | İnşaat Mühendisliği / Civil Engineering |
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Publication Date | March 31, 2018 |
Submission Date | June 1, 2017 |
Acceptance Date | August 27, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 |