Open Conference Systems, 50th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society

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Detection of damage in civil engineering structure by PCA on environmental vibration data
Gianna Agrò, Valentina Carlisi, Roberta Mantione

Last modified: 2018-05-25

Abstract


The dynamic behavior of civil engineering structures are usually studied by means of ambient vibration observations and their performance is analyzed by Peak Picking and/or Operational Modal Analysis methods. This paper reports the first results of a statistical multivariate approach, specifically Principal Component Analysis, to detect a suspected structural damage on a sicilian highway bridge.Furthermore, the damage simulated in a simple structural model made it possible to understand the characteristics of the method consisting in comparing the observed data on an undamaged structure with those coming from a damaged one.

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