Identifying fatigue damage under varying environmental conditions

Authors

Wing Liu, University of Rhode Island
David Chelidze, University of Rhode Island

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Date of Original Version

10-31-2006

Abstract

In this paper, a nonlinear dynamics based damage detection approach developed in previous work is modified and applied to identify fatigue damage under varying environmental conditions. A fatigue crack is initiated by a machined notch in a cantilever beam that vibrates in a magnetic potential field perturbed by two electromagnets. Change of environmental conditions is simulated by altering supply voltages of the electromagnets. Feature vectors corresponding with influence of the varying environmental conditions are located in a damage-tracking matrix. By removing these feature vectors, the influence of the environment is isolated. Then the propagation of the fatigue damage is identified using smooth orthogonal decomposition.

Publication Title, e.g., Journal

Proceedings of the 2006 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2006

Volume

2

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Liu, Wing, and David Chelidze. "Identifying fatigue damage under varying environmental conditions." Proceedings of the 2006 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2006 2, (2006): 620-626. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/mcise_facpubs/105