桥梁拉索损伤声发射监测研究进展

大量索承体系桥梁即将达到20–30年的拉索寿命期,开展有效的拉索损伤监测方法研究有利于保障大桥结构安全。本文简要论述了现有桥梁拉索损伤检测及监测方法的适用性,重点综述了近40年来声发射技术应用于桥梁拉索监测的研究进展,以及在腐蚀、疲劳、断丝等损伤监测方面所取得的研究成果。结合实测数据在采集、数据处理过程中的难点及参数分析盲点,探讨了现有研究成果应用于特大桥梁拉索损伤监测仍需解决的问题,并针对性地提出了研究思路。     

Dynamic behavior monitoring and damage evaluation for arch bridge suspender using GFRP optical fiber Bragg grating sensors

Suspenders, as the main bearing components in an arch bridge, can only manage to serve for about tens of years, or even a few years due to the influences of corrosion and fatigue load. This paper proposes a method of testing the suspender dynamic behavior with optical fiber Bragg grating sensors embedded in the glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP–OFBGS). Firstly, layout method of FRP–OFBGS among the suspender and protection technology are studied, and the self-monitoring smart suspender is developed. Secondly, stretching experiments were carried out on the smart suspender. The test experimental results demonstrated that the whole procedure of the stretching test can be perfectly monitored. Finally, the self-monitoring smart suspender successfully was applied in Ebian Bridge to monitor the strain history of suspenders under traffic load, and traffic effect to suspenders with various lengths and to different steel strands of a single suspender. Based on the monitoring data, the arch bridge suspenders fatigue damage dynamic evaluation methods and calculation results were given. The field monitoring results demonstrated that, the self-monitoring smart suspender mentioned in this paper is capable of monitoring suspender dynamic response and possible fatigue damages.     

拉索锚固系统隐蔽部分安防预警检测装置的设计

斜拉桥锚固区拉索索体隐蔽在预埋管内,肉眼无法检测其损伤情况。搭建了一套基于高分辨率的视频采集检测技术装置,实现了隐蔽段拉索索体的远距离观测和狭小空间内的外表损伤检测。系统主要由光学支架与精密机械支撑装置、光学成像系统、照明光源、驱动电机控制、IP摄像机视频采集系统等部分组成。设计了一套3个不同焦距（长焦、中焦和短焦）的望远物镜,通过转换器实现在不同监控距离上的适配选用,物镜系统与照明系统远分离,使成像光路有效地避开隐蔽部分的恶劣环境。实践证明,该装置能有效采集到清晰的索体外表面监控视频图像,可用于预应力构筑物安防预警等方面。     

The effect of cable loosening on seismic response of a prestressed concrete cable-stayed bridge

In conventional non-linear seismic analyses of cable-stayed bridges, the non-linear characteristics of the girders, stay cables and towers are considered. The non-linearity caused by cable loosening should also be considered because a large axial force fluctuation is generated in the cables of a prestressed concrete (PC) cable-stayed bridge that is subjected to strong seismic motion. In this paper, the possibility of the cable loosening in a PC cable-stayed bridge is discussed by using a cable model that can express the cable loosening. Furthermore, the effect of the cable loosening on the responses of the cables, girder and towers is evaluated using the mean value for three seismic waves. Numerical analytic results imply that the cable loosening appears in the bottom cables of the multi-cable system and the dynamic response of the bridge is slightly increased.     

Response characteristics of local vibrations in stay cables on an existing cable-stayed bridge

This paper examines local parametric vibrations in the stay cables of a cable-stayed bridge. The natural frequencies of the global modes are obtained by using a three-dimensional FE model. The global motions generated by (1) sinusoidal excitations using exciter, (2) a traffic loading, and (3) an earthquake are analyzed by using the modal analysis method or the direct integration method. The local vibration of stay cable is calculated by using a model in which inclined cable is subjected to time-varying displacement at one support during global motions. This paper describes the properties of the local vibrations in stay cables under these dynamic loadings by using an existing cable-stayed bridge.     

Effects of cables damage on vertical and torsional eigenproperties of suspension bridges

This paper presents a continuum model for the nonlinear coupled vertical and torsional vibrations of suspension bridges with arbitrary damage in one main cable and, after pursuing a suitable linearization of the equations of motion, an investigation of damage effects on modal parameters. Damage is modeled as a diffused loss of cross-section representing the typical effect of fretting fatigue and it is introduced in the formulation by enforcing relevant literature results providing analytical solution for the static response of damaged suspended cables. The coupled nonlinear equations of motion of the damaged bridge, including the effects of shear deformation, rotary inertia and warping of the cross-section of the girder, are derived by application of Hamilton?s principle. In this way, the equations of motion available in the literature for undamaged suspension bridges are generalized to the presence of arbitrary damage in one main cable and the resulting eigenfrequencies and eigenfunctions are derived in an analytical fashion. An extensive parametric investigation is finally presented to discuss damage effects on eigenfunctions and eigenfrequencies under variation of practically meaningful parameters.     

DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF LARGE-DIAMETER SAGGED CABLES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT FLEXURAL RIGIDITY

For the purpose of developing a vibration-based tension force evaluation procedure for bridge cables using measured multimode frequencies, an investigation on accurate finite element modelling of large-diameter sagged cables taking into account flexural rigidity and sag extensibility is carried out in this paper. A three-node curved isoparametric finite element is formulated for dynamic analysis of bridge stay cables by regarding the cable as a combination of an “ideal cable element” and a fictitious curved beam element in the variational sense. With the developed finite element formulation, parametric studies are conducted to evaluate the relationship between the modal properties and cable parameters lying in a wide range covering most of the cables in existing cable-supported bridges, and the effect of cable bending stiffness and sag on the natural frequencies. A case study is eventually provided to compare the measured natural frequencies of main cables of the Tsing Ma Bridge and the computed frequencies with and without considering cable bending stiffness. The results show that ignoring bending stiffness gives rise to unacceptable errors in predicting higher order natural frequencies of the cables, and the proposed finite element formulation provides an accurate baseline model for cable tension identification from measured multimode frequencies.     

基于光纤光栅绝对测量技术的高耐久智能钢拉杆

针对目前钢拉杆构件缺少施工荷载下的内力测试和服役期间的长期监测手段问题,采用玻璃钢封装技术研制开发出一种新型的基于光纤光栅绝对测量传感技术的高耐久性智能钢拉杆。在理论屈服荷载85%的拉伸荷载下,智能钢拉杆感知的应变具有很好的线性度和重复性,由其得到的测试杆力与实验张拉力吻合良好,误差在4%以内。该智能钢拉杆具有抗电磁干扰、传感距离长、成本低、耐腐蚀、绝对测量等优点,既可以方便给出任何阶段的受力状态,也可以作为一个大应变式荷载传感器对其相邻的结构进行荷载监测,适合用于恶劣服役环境下的钢拉杆工程结构。     

CFETR馈线导体设计与热稳定性分析

CFETR馈线导体设计采用NbTi超导线材管内电缆(CICC)结构,其中超导电缆主要由6个花瓣形状的电缆和一个中间铜芯绞制而成,而花瓣形状的电缆由NbTi超导线材与铜线沿顺时针方向通过4级绞制而成,导体外部采用不锈钢铠甲结构。计算分析了运行工况下导体结构的热稳定性参数。结果显示,在95.6kA的最高载流下,分流温度低于6K,热点温度低于250K,满足设计要求。     

光纤光栅传感技术在成桥检测中的应用研究

在分析的基础上,通过等强度梁试验具体验证了光纤Bragg光栅波长变化与应变的关系,研究了光纤Bragg光栅传感器的布设工艺,并在某大桥的成桥检测过程中成功地布设了36个光纤Bragg光栅应变传感器与5个温度传感器,布设的传感器在成桥检测过程中监测结构层状态。监测结果表明：埋入的光纤Bragg光栅传感器具有很好的传感性能,可以很方便地监测桥梁结构,为桥梁结构的健康诊断提供可靠的依据。     

正交异性钢桥面板声发射波三维谱元法模拟及损伤定位*

针对大跨度桥梁正交异性钢桥面板的疲劳损伤评估与结构健康监测需求,开展基于声发射波场谱元法模拟的大型复杂板类结构损伤定位研究。采用Legendre高阶插值三维时域谱元法模拟声发射波在正交异性钢桥面板中的传播过程,验证了其内部显著的反射、衍射和频散现象,并代替人工预断铅实测试验获得大量声发射数据。然后,利用赤池信息准则判定声发射波到达各传感器的时间,通过高斯过程回归建立到达时差与声发射源位置的关系模型,用于未知损伤的定位监测。数值模型实验结果表明,赤池信息准则和高斯过程回归改进的时差图法在正交异性钢桥面板中的平均定位误差为37.3 mm(25 dB信噪比工况),平板的定位精度高于U肋。谱元法模拟有望代替繁琐的预断铅实测试验,提升声发射时差图系列损伤定位方法的实用性。     

Finite element modelling for fatigue stress analysis of large suspension bridges

Fatigue is an important failure mode for large suspension bridges under traffic loadings. However, large suspension bridges have so many attributes that it is difficult to analyze their fatigue damage using experimental measurement methods. Numerical simulation is a feasible method of studying such fatigue damage. In British standards, the finite element method is recommended as a rigorous method for steel bridge fatigue analysis. This paper aims at developing a finite element (FE) model of a large suspension steel bridge for fatigue stress analysis. As a case study, a FE model of the Tsing Ma Bridge is presented. The verification of the model is carried out with the help of the measured bridge modal characteristics and the online data measured by the structural health monitoring system installed on the bridge. The results show that the constructed FE model is efficient for bridge dynamic analysis. Global structural analyses using the developed FE model are presented to determine the components of the nominal stress generated by railway loadings and some typical highway loadings. The critical locations in the bridge main span are also identified with the numerical results of the global FE stress analysis. Local stress analysis of a typical weld connection is carried out to obtain the hot-spot stresses in the region. These results provide a basis for evaluating fatigue damage and predicting the remaining life of the bridge.     

基于光纤布拉格光栅传感器的光纤光栅智能夹层试验研究

传感元件与复合材料的一体化是智能结构研究的最终目标之一。设计一种具有自诊断功能的标准化、模块化光纤智能夹层系统,正是实现这种一体化最有潜力的技术途径。采用聚酰亚胺薄膜制作了基于光纤布拉格光栅（FBG）传感器的光纤光栅智能夹层,对智能夹层中光纤布拉格光栅传感器的应变、温度特性进行了标定试验,并建立了基于光纤布拉格光栅传感器光纤光栅智能夹层的应变、温度测量模型。试验表明,智能夹层内布拉格光栅波长偏移与应变、温度之间具有良好的线性关系。不过在温度测量时,必须考虑被埋人结构的热膨胀效应。利用光纤光栅智能夹层内光纤布拉格光栅传感器网络和先进信息处理技术,可以建立结构损伤主动、在线和实时监测系统。     

Experimental verification of response of embedded optical fiber Bragg grating sensors in non-homogeneous strain fields

One of the advantages of optical fiber sensors is their ease of embedment within a structure for non-destructive strain monitoring. In particular, Bragg grating sensors are written directly into an optical fiber hence remaining unobtrusive. In addition, several gratings can be written in series along a single fiber, permitting sensing at discrete points throughout the strain field. However, in regions of strong strain gradients, measuring the strain at discrete points may not be sufficient. One solution is to write a Bragg grating longer than the strain region of interest and use the change in its spectral response to determine the applied strain field as a function of position along the fiber. This paper presents an experimental verification of the response of an embedded optical fiber Bragg grating (OFBG) to applied non-homogeneous strain fields. Optical fiber Bragg grating sensors were embedded in four epoxy specimens of different forms so as to apply known strain functions along the gauge length when the specimen is under uniaxial tension. The complete spectral response of the Bragg gratings was then measured as a function of increasing load. The results are compared with analytical calculations, based on the piecewise-uniform period assumption for chirped gratings. Finally, the use of these spectra is discussed as possible basis functions for the resolution of an arbitrary applied strain distribution.     

Eigenproperties of suspension bridges with damage

The vertical vibration of suspension bridges with a damage in the main cables is studied using a continuum formulation. Starting from a model for damaged suspended cables recently proposed in the literature, an improved expression for the dynamic increment of cable tension is derived. The nonlinear equation of motion of the damaged bridge is obtained by extending this model to include the stiffening girder. The linear undamped modal eigenproperties are then extracted, in closed-form, from the linearized equation of motion, thus generalizing to the presence of an arbitrary damage the expressions known from the literature for undamaged suspension bridges. The linear dynamics of the damaged bridge reveals to be completely described by means of the same two non-dimensional parameters that govern the linear dynamics of undamaged bridges and which account for the mechanical characteristics of both the main cable and the girder, with the addition of three non-dimensional parameters characterizing damage intensity, position and extent. After presenting the mathematical formulation, a parametric analysis is conducted with the purpose of investigating the sensitivity of natural frequencies and mode shapes to damage, which, in fact, is a crucial point concerning damage detection applications using inverse methods. All through the paper, systematic comparisons with finite element simulations are presented for the purpose of model validation.     

埋地电缆雷电感应过电压观测和分析

通过测量自然闪电条件下埋地电缆的雷电感应过电压,探讨了不同类型电缆屏蔽层对芯线上感应过电压的影响。结果表明：电缆屏蔽层具有明显降低雷电感应过电压的作用;对同一次自然闪电,相对于电源电缆,控制电缆和信号电缆上感应电压脉冲波形峰峰值分别为65%和26%。在选取的起始脉冲时间段内,电缆感应过电压正、负峰值的绝对值同时增大或减小,具有一定的对应关系。钢带屏蔽层能够有效抑制控制电缆感应过电压400 kHz～1 MHz的频率分量,铜编织带屏蔽层对信号电缆感应过电压50 kHz以下频率分量的削弱效果明显。总体来看,铜编织带比钢带具有更好的屏蔽效果。     

The design of an optimal viscous damper for a bridge stay cable using energy-based approach

An energy-based method is developed in the present paper to evaluate the damping property of a stay cable when transversely attached to a viscous damper. The overall increase of the cable damping offered by the external damper is determined by examining the time history of the kinetic energy in the damped cable. The concept of kinetic energy decay ratio is introduced as a key index to evaluate the effectiveness of a damper design in suppressing cable vibration. Compared to earlier studies, the proposed energy-based approach has no restrictions on the damper location. In addition, the flexural rigidity and sag extensibility of the cable are included in the formulation. Numerical simulation of free vibration of a damped stay cable is conducted using ABAQUS. To assist the design process, a set of damping estimation curves, which directly relate a damper design with the corresponding equivalent structural damping in a damped cable are developed for the practical parameter ranges of bridge stay cables. A number of numerical examples are presented. The validity and accuracy of the proposed method and damping estimation curves are verified by comparing with other studies. Results show that the energy-based approach developed in the present study is effective and efficient in determining the overall damping property of a cable-damper system, particularly in the preliminary stage of a damper design. In addition, the flexible applications of the developed damping estimation curves to damper design are demonstrated through these examples.     

Some recent results on the fatigue strength of notched specimens made of 40CrMoV13.9 steel at room and high temperature

The work summarizes a large bulk of experimental data from specimens made of 40CrMoV13.9 steel. The first part of the paper deals with multiaxial fatigue strength of notched round bars tested under combined tension and torsion loading, both in-phase and out-of-phase. The results from multi-axial tests are discussed together with those obtained under pure tension and pure torsion loading from notched specimens with the same geometry. The second part of the paper summarizes data from uniaxial-tension stress-controlled fatigue tests on specimens made of the same steel. Tests are performed varying temperature, from room temperature up to 650°C. Altogether more than 180 new fatigue data are summarised in the present work, corresponding to more than two-years of testing programme. All fatigue data are presented first in terms of nominal stress amplitudes referred to the net area and then re-analysed in terms of the mean value of the strain energy density evaluated over a given, crescent shape volume embracing the stress concentration region. For the specific steel, the radius of the control volume is found to be independent of the loading mode.     

Tensile testing machine for optical fibres and cables

A tensile testing machine suitable for optical fibre and optical cable testing is described. This machine uses specially developed gripping arrangements to obviate damage to the sample during testing. Some preliminary measurements of the stress/strain behaviour of coated fibres and optical cables are presented.     

Experimental study of the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of suspended taut steel cables using a 3-D motion analysis system

This paper presents an experimental study of the nonlinear dynamic characteristics of taut steel cables using a 3-D motion analysis system. In the experiment, the taut cables have one end fixed and the other end subject to harmonic vertical excitation. The 3-D motion analysis system can simultaneously record (with high resolution) the instant 3-D coordinates of the multiple markers fixed on a vibrating cable; this distinguishes it from other experimental systems used in vibration studies, in which the vibration of only one single point can be recorded during each individual testing. With the 3-D motion analysis system, this experimental study presents a distinctive interpretation of the dynamic characteristics of taut cables in spatial domain (based on the mode-shape information of the entire cable), in addition to one in time domain (based on real-time traces of one single point). This paper introduces the 3-D motion analysis system and experimental setup, discusses practical experimental procedures, and presents a detailed analysis of three sets of experimental vibration data of three taut steel cables with different small sags. The frequency response curves were obtained for three cables. For one of the three taut cables, more informative vibration data were recorded; this cable was studied in greater detail via modal analysis using a modal decomposition technique and nonlinear time-series analysis.