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Damage identification in plate-like structures using frequency-coupled l1-based sparse estimation

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Nathan Dwek *
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Vasileios Dimopoulos
D
Dennis Janssens
M
Matteo Kirchner
E
Elke Deckers
F
Frank Naets
DOI:10.1016/j.ymssp.2024.112084delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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This article proposes a practical and effective damage identification approach for plate-like structures. This approach measures the back scattering caused by damage, and decomposes it into individual contributions from each defect, using the responses of the healthy structure as a dictionary. A data-driven model is used, which circumvents the challenge of numerically simulating the effect of damage, yet does not require training data from known-damaged structures. The decomposition itself is performed using sparsity-promoting optimization, which reduces the number of required measurements and streamlines the inspection procedure. A novel frequency-coupled method is proposed to obtain the desired spatial sparsity of the estimated damage, which results in improved accuracy compared to the previously proposed frequency-decoupled method. Damage identification is demonstrated on a 600 mm x 600 mm composite plate, using a single accelerometer and 7 impact hammer hits. The performance is evaluated on 6 damage scenarios, for 7 accelerometer positions, and for SNRs ranging from 30 to 0 dB. Detection and localization are shown to be excellent up to 5 defects and down to 15 dB SNR, and to remain robust and predictable outside of that range. These results are compared to reference methods and a significant improvement is observed.
Keywords:
Structural health monitoring
Non-destructive testing
Damage identification
Wave propagation
Sparsity
Inverse problems

Journal

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing cover
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
IF:
8.9
Papers:
1.3W
Citations:
6.6W

Organization

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KU Leuven
Scholars:
5.7W
Papers: 5.2W
Citations: 8.1W