National University Transportation Consortium: A Speaker Recognition Based Damage Detection

In this study, an adaptation of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients as damage sensitive features for structural health monitoring of civil structures was addressed. Typically used in speaker recognition methodologies, these indices offer an extremely easy extracting process with a few user-defined parameters and a low computational burden and they have been shown to be an effective alternative to other features for damage detection problems. To remove environmental effects from the coefficient estimation, a technique called "Cointegration", quite popular in econometrics, has been applied. Two study cases were presented: (1) a numerical simulation of a cantilever beam subject to environmental variations both in undamaged as well as damaged conditions, and (2) the benchmark case of the Z24 bridge, a structure in Switzerland that was recently demolished and that was fully instrumented, during operational conditions as well as during demolition. From the results of this study, it appears that the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) the cepstral coefficients have the potential to become quite useful damage sensitive features that can be used on bridge structures: they are compact features, easy to obtain, and require little input from the user, and (2) the cointegration technique appears to be a very effective technique to remove non-stationary effects such as those induced by the environment temperature. As shown in this report, the analyses conducted on data from the tests run on the Z24 bridge show great potential for both techniques and warrants further investigation.

• Record URL:
  https://cait.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cait-utc-nc47-final.pdf
• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49473
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Columbia University

  Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
  610 Southwest Mudd, 500 West 120th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10027-6699

  Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation

  Rutgers University
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  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08854-8058

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
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• Authors:
  • Betti, Raimondo
• Publication Date: 2018-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 38p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Beams; Bridges; Case studies; Frequency (Electromagnetism); Information processing; Simulation; Structural health monitoring
• Identifier Terms: Z24 Bridge (Bern, Switzerland)
• Geographic Terms: Switzerland
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01715251
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: CAIT-UTC-NC47
• Contract Numbers: DTRT13-G-UTC28
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 29 2019 5:28PM