Conference paper
Structural Health Monitoring approach for detecting ice accretion on bridge cable using the Haar Wavelet Transform
Ice accretion on cables of bridge structures poses serious risk to the structure as well as to vehicular traffic when the ice falls onto the road. Detection of ice formation, quantification of the amount of ice accumulated, and prediction of icefalls will increase the safety and serviceability of the structure.
In this paper, an ice accretion detection algorithm is presented based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). In the proposed algorithm, the acceleration signals obtained from bridge cables are transformed using wavelet method. The damage sensitive features (DSFs) are de fined as a function of the wavelet energy at specific wavelet scales.
It is found that as ice accretes on the cables, the mass of cable increases, thus changing the wavelet energies. Hence, the DSFs can be used to track the change of cables mass. To validate the proposed algorithm, we use the data collected from a laboratory experiment conducted at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
In this experiment, a cable was placed in a wind tunnel as ice volume grew progressively. Several accelerometers were installed at various locations along the testing cable to collect vibration signals.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 98030F-98030F-8 |
Proceedings: | Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems |
Series: | Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering |
ISBN: | 1510600442 and 9781510600447 |
ISSN: | 1996756x and 0277786x |
Types: | Conference paper |
DOI: | 10.1117/12.2219392 |