Crack location identification, as one key destination of structural health monitoring, is still a challenge for operating rotor systems. The operating deflection shape (ODS), which represents a visual description of t...Crack location identification, as one key destination of structural health monitoring, is still a challenge for operating rotor systems. The operating deflection shape (ODS), which represents a visual description of the structural vibration patterns under operating conditions, has been gaining importance for structure damage detection in recent years. The ODS carries damage information of a structure, however, it is also difficult to detect weak cracks of rotor directly. The approximate waveform capacity dimension (AWCD) method was successfully applied to damage detection of plates and beam-like structures. In this paper,a strategic approach that combines ODS and weighted AWCD is proposed for crack location identification of the rotating rotor.To eliminate the false peaks of AWCD and obtain desirable results, a weight factor and ODS curvature data are introduced to the expression of the weighted AWCD. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by numerical simulation and experimental investigation in a cracked rotor system. The results indicate that the proposed approach not only provides good identifying performance for incipient rotor cracks, but also effectively eliminates the fault peaks introduced by the inflexion locations of ODSs. Moreover, the proposed approach proves promising in detecting crack locations of rotating rotor systems.展开更多
Full-field measurement techniques such as the scanning laser Doppler vibrometer （LDV） and the electronic speckle pattern interferometry systems can provide a dense and accurate vibration measurement on structural op...Full-field measurement techniques such as the scanning laser Doppler vibrometer （LDV） and the electronic speckle pattern interferometry systems can provide a dense and accurate vibration measurement on structural operating deflection shape （ODS） on a relatively short period of time.The possibility of structural damage detection and localization using the ODS looks likely more attractive than when using traditional measurement techniques which address only a small number of discrete points.This paper discusses the decomposition method of the structural ODSs in the time history using principal component analysis to provide a novel approach to the structural health monitoring and damage detection.The damage indicator is proposed through comparison of structural singular vectors of the ODS variation matrixes between the healthy and damaged stages.A plate piece with a fix-free configuration is used as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the damage detection and localization using the proposed method.The simulation results show that：（1） the dominated principal components and the corresponding singular vectors obtained from the decomposition of the structural ODSs maintain most of all vibration information of the plate,especially in the case of harmonic force excitations that the 1st principal component and its vectors mostly dominated in the system;（2） the damage indicator can apparently flag out the damage localization in the case of the different sinusoidal excitation frequencies that may not be close to any of structural natural frequencies.The successful simulation indicates that the proposed method for structural damage detection is novel and robust.It also indicates the potentially practical applications in industries.展开更多
Due to the nonlinearity of breathing crack, cracked structure under excitation of a single frequency always generates higher harmonic components. In this paper, operational deflection shape (ODS) at excitation frequen...Due to the nonlinearity of breathing crack, cracked structure under excitation of a single frequency always generates higher harmonic components. In this paper, operational deflection shape (ODS) at excitation frequency and its higher harmonic components are used to map the deflection pattern of cracked structure. While ODS is sensitive to local variation of structure in nature, a new concept named transmissibility of operational deflection shape (TODS) has been defined for crack localization using beam-like structure. The transmissibility indicates the energy transfer from basic frequency to higher frequency. Then, Teager energy operator (TEO) is employed as a singularity detector to reveal and characterize the features of TODS. Numerical and experimental analysis in cantilever beam show that TODS has strong sensitivity to crack and can locate the crack correctly.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51035007)the National Basic Research Program of China ("973" Program) (Grant No. 2011CB706805)Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University
文摘Crack location identification, as one key destination of structural health monitoring, is still a challenge for operating rotor systems. The operating deflection shape (ODS), which represents a visual description of the structural vibration patterns under operating conditions, has been gaining importance for structure damage detection in recent years. The ODS carries damage information of a structure, however, it is also difficult to detect weak cracks of rotor directly. The approximate waveform capacity dimension (AWCD) method was successfully applied to damage detection of plates and beam-like structures. In this paper,a strategic approach that combines ODS and weighted AWCD is proposed for crack location identification of the rotating rotor.To eliminate the false peaks of AWCD and obtain desirable results, a weight factor and ODS curvature data are introduced to the expression of the weighted AWCD. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by numerical simulation and experimental investigation in a cracked rotor system. The results indicate that the proposed approach not only provides good identifying performance for incipient rotor cracks, but also effectively eliminates the fault peaks introduced by the inflexion locations of ODSs. Moreover, the proposed approach proves promising in detecting crack locations of rotating rotor systems.
基金supported by Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. BK2008383)Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. M0903-021)+1 种基金Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Grant for the Talents,China (Grant No.KT50838-021)Jiangsu Provincial Research Foundation for Talented Scholars in Six Fields of China (Grant No. P0951-021)
文摘Full-field measurement techniques such as the scanning laser Doppler vibrometer （LDV） and the electronic speckle pattern interferometry systems can provide a dense and accurate vibration measurement on structural operating deflection shape （ODS） on a relatively short period of time.The possibility of structural damage detection and localization using the ODS looks likely more attractive than when using traditional measurement techniques which address only a small number of discrete points.This paper discusses the decomposition method of the structural ODSs in the time history using principal component analysis to provide a novel approach to the structural health monitoring and damage detection.The damage indicator is proposed through comparison of structural singular vectors of the ODS variation matrixes between the healthy and damaged stages.A plate piece with a fix-free configuration is used as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of the damage detection and localization using the proposed method.The simulation results show that：（1） the dominated principal components and the corresponding singular vectors obtained from the decomposition of the structural ODSs maintain most of all vibration information of the plate,especially in the case of harmonic force excitations that the 1st principal component and its vectors mostly dominated in the system;（2） the damage indicator can apparently flag out the damage localization in the case of the different sinusoidal excitation frequencies that may not be close to any of structural natural frequencies.The successful simulation indicates that the proposed method for structural damage detection is novel and robust.It also indicates the potentially practical applications in industries.
文摘Due to the nonlinearity of breathing crack, cracked structure under excitation of a single frequency always generates higher harmonic components. In this paper, operational deflection shape (ODS) at excitation frequency and its higher harmonic components are used to map the deflection pattern of cracked structure. While ODS is sensitive to local variation of structure in nature, a new concept named transmissibility of operational deflection shape (TODS) has been defined for crack localization using beam-like structure. The transmissibility indicates the energy transfer from basic frequency to higher frequency. Then, Teager energy operator (TEO) is employed as a singularity detector to reveal and characterize the features of TODS. Numerical and experimental analysis in cantilever beam show that TODS has strong sensitivity to crack and can locate the crack correctly.
