Title
Local flow variation method for damage identification
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Date of Original Version
1-1-2005
Abstract
In this paper, a damage identification method called local flow variation is introduced. It is a practical implementation of a phase space warping concept. A hierarchical dynamical system is considered where a slow-time damage process causes drifts in the parameters of fast-time system describing measurable response of a structure. The method is based on the hypothesis that the probability distribution function of the fast-time trajectory in its phase space is a function of damage state. In this method, an ensemble of estimated expectations of trajectory in different locations of the reconstructed phase space is used as a damage feature vector. Using these feature vectors, damage identification is realized by a smooth orthogonal decomposition. An experiment is conducted to validate the method. A two dimensional slow-time damage process is identified from experimental fast-time data. Although damage identification through the local flow variation is not as accurate as trough phase space warping, the required computing time is about two-orders-of-magnitude shorter. Copyright © 2005 by ASME.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005
Volume
1 B
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Liu, Ming, and David Chelidze. "Local flow variation method for damage identification." Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference - DETC2005 1 B, (2005): 1663-1668. doi: 10.1115/detc2005-85142.