A Comparative Study of Damage-Sensitive Features for Rapid Data-Driven Seismic Structural Health Monitoring
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2023-02
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Rapid post-earthquake damage assessment forms a critical element of resilience, ensuring a prompt and functional recovery of the built environment. Monitoring-based approaches have the potential to significantly improve upon current visual inspection-based condition assessment that is slow and potentially subjective. The large variety of sensing solutions that has become available at affordable cost in recent years allows the engineering community to envision permanent-monitoring applications even in conventional low-to-mid-rise buildings. When combined with adequate structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques, sensor data recorded during earthquakes have the potential to provide automated near-real-time identification of earthquake damage. Near-real time building assessment relies on the tracking of damage-sensitive features (DSFs) that can be directly and rapidly derived from dynamic monitoring data and scaled with damage. We here offer a comprehensive review of such damage-sensitive features in an effort to formally assess the capacity of such data-driven indicators to detect, localize and quantify the presence of nonlinearity in seismic-induced structural response. We employ both a parametric analysis on a simulated model and real data from shake-table tests to investigate the strengths and limitations of purely data-driven approaches, which typically involve a comparison against a healthy reference state. We present an array of damage-sensitive features which are found to be robust with respect to noise, to reliably detect and scale with nonlinearity, and to carry potential to localize the occurrence of nonlinear behavior in conventional structures undergoing earthquakes.
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13 (4)
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2708
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MDPI
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seismic structural health monitoring; damage identification; vibration-based monitoring; post-earthquake building assessment; damage-sensitive features
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821115 - Real-time Earthquake Risk Reduction for Europe (EC)