Estimation of full‐field, full‐order experimental modal model of cable vibration from digital video measurements with physics‐guided unsupervised machine learning and computer vision
- 1 April 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Structural Control and Health Monitoring
- Vol. 26 (6)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/stc.2358
Abstract
Cables are critical components for a variety of structures such as stay cables and suspenders of cable‐stayed bridges and suspension bridges. When in operational service, they are vulnerable to cumulative fatigue damage induced by dynamic loads (e.g., the cyclic vehicle loads and wind excitation). To accurately analyze and predict their dynamics behaviors and performance that could be spatially local and temporal transient, it is essential to perform high‐resolution vibration measurements, from which their dynamics properties are identified and, subsequently, a high spatial resolution, full‐modal‐order dynamics model of cable vibration can be established. This study develops a physics‐guided, unsupervised machine learning‐based video processing approach that can blindly and efficiently extract the full‐field (as many points as the pixel number of the video frame) modal parameters of cable vibration using only the video of an operating (output‐only) cable. In particular, by incorporating the physics of cable vibration (taut string model), a novel automated modal motion filtering method is proposed to enable autonomous identification of full‐order (as many modes as possible) dynamic parameters, including those weakly excited modes that used to be challenging to identify in operational modal analysis. Therefore, a full‐field, full‐order modal model of cable vibration is established by the proposed method. Furthermore, this new approach provides a low‐cost and noncontact technique to estimate the cable tension using only the video of the vibrating cable where the fundamental frequency is automatically and efficiently estimated to compute the cable tension according to the taut string equation. Laboratory experiments on a bench‐scale cable are conducted to validate the developed approach.Keywords
Funding Information
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (20150708PRD2)
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