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In this paper, wavelet energy damage indicator is used in response surface methodology to identify the damage in simulated filler beam railway bridge. The approximate model is addressed to include the operational and surrounding condition in the assessment. The procedure is split into two stages, the training and detecting phase. During training phase, a so-called response surface is built from training data using polynomial regression and radial basis function approximation approaches. The response surface is used to detect the damage in structure during detection phase. The results show that the response surface model is able to detect moderate damage in one of bridge supports while the temperatures and train velocities are varied.
Civil engineers take advantage of models to design reliable structures. In order to fulfill the design goal with a certain amount of confidence, the utilized models should be able to predict the probable structural behavior under the expected loading schemes. Therefore, a major challenge is to find models which provide less uncertain and more robust responses. The problem gets even twofold when the model to be studied is a global model comprised of different interacting partial models. This study aims at model quality evaluation of global models with a focus on frame-wall systems as the case study. The paper, presents the results of the first step taken toward accomplishing this goal. To start the model quality evaluation of the global frame-wall system, the main element (i.e. the wall) was studied through nonlinear static and dynamic analysis using two different modeling approaches. The two selected models included the fiber section model and the Multiple-Vertical-Line-Element-Model (MVLEM). The influence of the wall aspect ratio (H=L) and the axial load on the response of the models was studied. The results from nonlinear static and dynamic analysis of both models are presented and compared. The models resulted in quite different responses in the range of low aspect ratio walls under large axial loads due to different contribution of the shear deformations to the top displacement. In the studied cases, the results implied that careful attention should be paid to the model quality evaluation of the wall models specifically when they are supposed to be coupled to other partial models such as a moment frame or a soil-footing substructure which their response is sensitive to shear deformations. In this case, even a high quality wall model would not result in a high quality coupled system since it fails to interact properly with the rest of the system.
The aim of this study is to show an application of model robustness measures for soilstructure interaction (henceforth written as SSI) models. Model robustness defines a measure for the ability of a model to provide useful model answers for input parameters which typically have a wide range in geotechnical engineering. The calculation of SSI is a major problem in geotechnical engineering. Several different models exist for the estimation of SSI. These can be separated into analytical, semi-analytical and numerical methods. This paper focuses on the numerical models of SSI specific macro-element type models and more advanced finite element method models using contact description as continuum or interface elements. A brief description of the models used is given in the paper. Following this description, the applied SSI problem is introduced. The observed event is a static loaded shallow foundation with an inclined load. The different partial models to consider the SSI effects are assessed using different robustness measures during numerical application. The paper shows the investigation of the capability to use these measures for the assessment of the model quality of SSI partial models. A variance based robustness and a mathematical robustness approaches are applied. These different robustness measures are used in a framework which allows also the investigation of computational time consuming models. Finally the result shows that the concept of using robustness approaches combined with other model–quality indicators (e.g. model sensitivity or model reliability) can lead to unique model–quality assessment for SSI models.
Non-destructive techniques for damage detection became the focus of engineering interests in the last few years. However, applying these techniques to large complex structures like civil engineering buildings still has some limitations since these types of structures are
unique and the methodologies often need a large number of specimens for reliable results. For this reason, cost and time can greatly influence the final results.
Model Assisted Probability Of Detection (MAPOD) has taken its place among the ranks of damage identification techniques, especially with advances in computer capacity and modeling tools. Nevertheless, the essential condition for a successful MAPOD is having a reliable model in advance. This condition is opening the door for model assessment and model quality problems. In this work, an approach is proposed that uses Partial Models (PM) to compute the Probability Of damage Detection (POD). A simply supported beam, that can be structurally modified and
tested under laboratory conditions, is taken as an example. The study includes both experimental and numerical investigations, the application of vibration-based damage detection approaches and a comparison of the results obtained based on tests and simulations.
Eventually, a proposal for a methodology to assess the reliability and the robustness of the models is given.
It is well known that complex quaternion analysis plays an important role in the study of higher order boundary value problems of mathematical physics. Following the ideas given for real quaternion analysis, the paper deals with certain orthogonal decompositions of the complex quaternion Hilbert space into its subspaces of null solutions of Dirac type operator with an arbitrary complex potential. We then apply them to consider related boundary value problems, and to prove the existence and uniqueness as well as the explicit representation formulae of the underlying solutions.
Der Nachbehandlung eines Fahrbahndeckenbetons kommt zum Erzielen eines hohen Frost-Tausalz-Widerstandes der fertigen Betondecke eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Bei der Waschbetonbauweise erfolgt die Nachbehandlung in mehreren Schritten. Eine erste Nachbehandlung gewährleistet den Verdunstungsschutz des Betons bis zum Zeitpunkt des Ausbürstens des verzögerten Oberflächenmörtels. Daran schließt sich die zweite Nachbehandlung an, in der Regel durch Aufsprühen eines flüssigen Nachbehandlungsmittels.
Der zweite Nachbehandlungsschritt ist entscheidend für den Frost-Tausalz-Widerstand der Betondecke. Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes wurde daher untersucht, inwiefern durch eine Optimierung der zweiten Nachbehandlung der Frost-Tausalz-Widerstand von Waschbetonoberflächen erhöht werden kann, insbesondere bei Verwendung hüttensandhaltiger Zemente. Schon durch eine einmalige Nassnachbehandlung wurde eine deutlich höherer Widerstand der Waschbetons gegen Frost-Tausalz-Angriff erzielt.
Die besondere Aggressivität von hochkonzentrierten Magnesiumsulfatlösungen bei Einwirkung auf Beton ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten bekannt. Neben dem Sulfat greift zusätzlich auch das Magnesium den Zementstein an. Bei hohen Lösungskonzentrationen nimmt der Magnesiumangriff gegenüber dem Sulfatangriff sogar eine dominante Rolle ein. Magnesiumgehalte unter 300 mg/l im Grundwasser gelten allerdings bislang als nicht angreifend. In Auslagerungs- und Laborversuchen wurde jedoch festgestellt, dass auch bei praxisrelevanten Magnesium- (<300 mg/l) und Sulfatgehalten (1.500 mg/l) das Magnesium zu einer deutlichen Verschärfung des Sulfatangriffes bei niedrigen Temperaturen führte. Diese Verschärfung trat bei Mörteln und Betonen auf, bei denen der erhöhte Sulfatwiderstand durch einen teilweisen Zementersatz mit 20 % Flugasche zu einem CEM II/A-LL erreicht werden sollte, gemäß der Flugascheregelung nach EN 206-1/DIN 1045-2.
Bei einem teilweisen Zementersatz durch 30 % Flugasche konnte auch in magnesiumhaltigen Sulfatlösungen eine deutliche Verbesserung des Sulfatwiderstandes erreicht werden. Mörtel mit HS-Zement als Bindemittel wiesen keinerlei Schäden auf. Schadensverursachend war eine Kombination mehrerer Einflüsse. Zum einen wurde der Sulfatwiderstand des Zement-Flugasche-Systems durch die unzureichende Reaktion der Flugasche infolge der niedrigen Lagerungstemperatur geschwächt. Zum anderen konnte durch die Einwirkung des Magnesiums in der Randzone vermutlich eine Destabilisierung der C-S-H-Phasen erfolgen, wodurch die Thaumasitbildung an dieser Stelle forciert wurde. Zusätzlich wurde durch den Portlanditverbrauch und die pH-Wert-Absenkung in der Randzone die puzzolanische Reaktion der Flugasche behindert.