This paper discusses the implementation of a Structural Health Monitoring system for a FRP bridge structure using vibration-based monitoring techniques. The need to monitor the long-term performance of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite bridge structures prompted the installation of a vibration-based structural health monitoring system on a recently-built FRP composite highway bridge in C...

The successful operation of proposed precision spacecraft will require finite element models that are accurate to much higher frequencies than the standard application. The hallmark of this mid-frequency range, between low frequency modal analysis and high frequency statistical energy analysis, is high modal density. The modal density is so high, and the sensitivity of the modes with respect to...

Previous dynamic characterizations of the cercal mechanosensory hairs of crickets have generally been limited to the first resonant frequency and associated deflection shape. A more complete description of the mechanical dynamics of these structures could be obtained by an experimental modal analysis. This paper describes a method by which a full experimental modal analysis, giving natural freq...

Ambient vibration test is one of the most applicable and reliable methods among vibration tests due to recently fast evolvement of measurement, sensor technologies and data processing, and economical benefit as well. Modal identification methods of the ambient vibration structures are output-only identification techniques which have commonly been branched into either the frequency domain or the...

To assess the health condition of structures and infrastructure during their service lives, continuous vibration-based monitoring represents a viable cost-effective solution. Model updating digital twins are increasingly adopted for damage detection. However, significant gaps uncertainties in quantification still arise. This work presents original data from output-only modal identification test...

investigations on vibration behaviors of railway track systems were attempted in this research. this was made by conducting a comprehensive field investigation into the free vibration of track systems and response of tracks to train moving loads. in-situ modal analysis was used in a railway track field as an efficient method of investigating dynamic properties of railway track systems. natural ...

This experiment consists of determining the modal properties of a model structure. Many buildings in the practical world can be reasonably approximated by shear structures in which only one translational degree of freedom is taken into account for each floor level. Due to the simple characteristics of a shear structure, it is possible to determine its modal properties, such as the natural frequ...

The random decrement (RD) technique is a time domain procedure, where the structural responses to operational loads are transformed into random decrement functions, which are proportional to the correlation functions of the system operational responses or can, equivalently, be considered as free vibration responses. This paper presents a general review on the application of the RD technique in ...