Application of Hilbert-Huang transformation for detection of damage in concrete

Hwai-Chung Wu; P. Frank Pai; Kraig Warnemuende

doi:10.1117/12.716653

11 April 2007 Application of Hilbert-Huang transformation for detection of damage in concrete

Hwai-Chung Wu, P. Frank Pai, Kraig Warnemuende

Proceedings Volume 6532, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2007; 65320Q (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716653
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2007, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Several nondestructive testing methods can be used to estimate the extent of damage in a concrete structure. Pulse-velocity and amplitude attenuation methods are very common in nondestructive ultrasonic evaluation. Velocity of propagation is not very sensitive to the degree of damage unless a great deal of micro-damages have evolved into localized macro-damages. The amplitude attenuation method is potentially more sensitive to damage than the pulse-velocity method. However, this method depends strongly on the coupling conditions between the transducers and the concrete and hence is unreliable. In a previous study, a new active modulation approach, Nonlinear Active Wave Modulation Spectroscopy, was developed and found promising for early detection of damage in concrete. In this procedure, a probe wave is passed through the system in a fashion similar to regular acoustic methods for inspection. Simultaneously, a second, low-frequency modulating wave is applied to the system to effectively change the size and stiffness of flaws microscopically and cyclically, thereby causing the frequency modulation to change cyclically as well. The resulting amplified modulations can be correlated to the extent of damage and quantification of small damage becomes possible. In this paper, we present the use of Hilbert-Huang transform to significantly enhance the damage detection sensitivity of this modulation method by performing time-frequency decomposition of nonlinear non-stationary time-domain responses.

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Hwai-Chung Wu, P. Frank Pai, and Kraig Warnemuende "Application of Hilbert-Huang transformation for detection of damage in concrete", Proc. SPIE 6532, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2007, 65320Q (11 April 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.716653

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