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Eliminating Environmental or Operational Influences in Structural Health Monitoring using the Missing Data Analysis

Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia, P.O. Box 4021, 00099 City of Helsinki, Finland, jyrki.kullaa{at}stadia.fi

Latent variable models can be used to eliminate the environmental or operational effects from the data without measuring the underlying variables and resulting in an increased reliability of damage detection. A method is proposed, which also utilizes the available environmental or operational variables. The method is based on the missing data analysis, in which each feature is estimated in turn using the other features and also the available environmental or operational variables. As damage detection is solely based on the measuremets, training data from the undamaged structure under different environmental or operational conditions are needed. Compared to many other latent variable models, the main advantage of the proposed method is that there are no parameters to be adjusted. The main disadvantage is a higher run time. The method is verified in a numerical study of a vehicle crane with a varying configuration and in an experimental study of a bridge structure under environmental variations. All damage cases were detected using the proposed approach, whereas no indications of damage resulted using the features directly. The importance of the measured environmental or operational variables for damage detection was found to be low, because the features typically consisted all the relevant information.

Key Words: structural health monitoring • embedded intelligence • sensor.

This version was published on July 1, 2009

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 20, No. 11, 1381-1390 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X08096050


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