Title
Scour Damage Detection and Structural Health Monitoring of a Laboratory-Scaled Bridge Using a Vibration Energy Harvesting Device.
Abstract
A vibration-based bridge scour detection procedure using a cantilever-based piezoelectric energy harvesting device (EHD) is proposed here. This has an advantage over an accelerometer-based method in that potentially, the requirement for a power source can be negated with the only power requirement being the storage and/or transmission of the data. Ideally, this source of power could be fulfilled by the EHD itself, although much research is currently being done to explore this. The open-circuit EHD voltage is used here to detect bridge frequency shifts arising due to scour. Using one EHD attached to the central bridge pier, both scour at the pier of installation and scour at another bridge pier can be detected from the EHD voltage generated during the bridge free-vibration stage, while the harvester is attached to a healthy pier. The method would work best with an initial modal analysis of the bridge structure in order to identify frequencies that may be sensitive to scour. Frequency components corresponding to harmonic loading and electrical interference arising from experiments are removed using the filter bank property of singular spectrum analysis (SSA). These frequencies can then be monitored by using harvested voltage from the energy harvesting device and successfully utilised towards structural health monitoring of a model bridge affected by scour.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19112572
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
bridge,scour,energy harvesting,damage detection,structural health monitoring,singular spectrum analysis,frequency shifts
Bridge scour,Structural health monitoring,Cantilever,Voltage,Harmonic,Pier,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Vibration,Modal analysis,Structural engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
11.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9