Structural damage identification of the highway bridge Z24 by FE model updating

The development of a methodology for accurate and reliable condition assessment of civil structures has become very important. The finite element (FE) model updating method provides an efficient, non-destructive, global damage identification technique, which is based on the fact that the modal parameters (eigenfrequencies and mode shapes) of the structure are affected by structural damage. In the FE model the damage is represented by a reduction of the stiffness properties of the elements and can be identified by tuning the FE model to the measured modal parameters. This paper describes an iterative sensitivity based FE model updating method in which the discrepancies in both the eigenfrequencies and unscaled mode shape data obtained from ambient tests are minimized. Furthermore, the paper proposes the use of damage functions to approximate the stiffness distribution, as an efficient approach to reduce the number of unknowns. Additionally the optimization process is made more robust by using the trust region strategy in the implementation of the Gauss-Newton method, which is another original contribution of this work. The combination of the damage function approach with the trust region strategy is a practical alternative to the pure mathematical regularization techniques such as Tikhonov approach. Afterwards the updating procedure is validated with a real application to a prestressed concrete bridge. The damage in the highway bridge is identified by updating the Young's and the shear modulus, whose distribution over the FE model are approximated by piecewise linear functions.     

Excitation and sensing of multiple vibrating traveling waves in one-dimensional structures

Lightly damped vibrating structures normally exhibit vibration patterns that are a combination of standing waves, i.e. mode shapes. Traveling waves, on the other hand, occur only under special circumstances. In this work, the theoretical conditions under which traveling waves prevail in finite structure are investigated. These conditions are highly sensitive to the geometrical and material parameters of the structure and in particular the vibration pattern is sensitive to the boundary conditions. There are several combinations under which traveling waves cannot be formed and these ill-posed cases are analyzed in some detail. To overcome the unavoidable uncertainties in a model, a tuning process based on identification and optimization of the excitation is suggested. The identification process uses a parametric algorithm to estimate the wavenumbers of the measured vibrations. Then, the waves are decomposed into traveling and standing parts and the external excitation is tuned until a pure traveling wave is formed.     

Structural-borne acoustics analysis and multi-objective optimization by using panel acoustic participation and response surface methodology

This paper is aimed to investigate the structural-borne acoustics analysis and multi-objective optimization of an enclosed box structure by using the panel acoustic participation (PAP) and response surface methodology (RSM). The acoustic frequency response function is applied to achieve the critical frequency of interest under each excitation. The PAP analysis is then carried out at all critical frequencies and the remarkable acoustic panels are identified. The correlation coefficient matrix method is proposed for reselecting and grouping the positions of acoustic panels identified to paste damping layer to control noise. With the help of faced central composite design, an efficient set of sample points are generated and then the second-order polynomial functions of sound pressure response at each critical frequency are computed and verified by the adjusted coefficient of multiple determination. The functional relationships between sound pressure responses and the thicknesses of damping layers are investigated, and multi-objective optimization of the thicknesses of damping layers is developed. The results indicate that, by using the PAP and RSM, the structural-borne acoustics at critical frequencies are calculated conveniently and controlled effectively. The optimization process of the explicit optimization model proposed in this paper is simple and the computational time is saved.     

Shape and topology optimization for electrothermomechanical microactuators using level set methods

In this short note, a shape and topology optimization method is presented for multiphysics actuators including geometrically nonlinear modeling based on an implicit free boundary parameterization method. A level set model is established to describe structural design boundary by embedding it into the zero level set of a higher-dimensional level set function. The compactly supported radial basis functions (CSRBF) are introduced to parameterize the implicit level set surface with a high level of accuracy and smoothness. The original more difficult shape and topology optimization driven by the Hamilton–Jacobi partial differential equation (PDE) is transferred into a relatively easier parametric (size) optimization, to which many well-founded optimization algorithms can be applied. Thus the structural optimization is transformed to a numerical process that describes the design as a sequence of motions of the design boundaries by updating the expansion coefficients of the size optimization. Two widely studied examples are chosen to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Experimental application of orthogonal eigenstructure control for structural vibration cancellation

Orthogonal eigenstructure control (OEC) is a novel feedback control that is applicable to linear systems. Orthogonal eigenstructure control can minimizes the trial and error by the controller designer. It finds orthogonal vectors to some targeted modes of the structure within the achievable eigenvector set. When the targeted modes are replaced with the orthogonal vectors, it results in a decoupled system or structure that leads to vibration isolation. In this article, experimental application of this control method for active vibration cancellation of a plate is presented. Piezoelectric actuators are used as control actuators and accelerometers are used as feedback sensors. Vibration cancellation in a plate due to 150 Hz sinusoidal disturbance and a wideband disturbance within the range 200-300 Hz are experimentally studied. Since OEC is a model-based control method, system identification techniques are used for estimating the state-space realization of the system model. The effect of tuning the control gain is studied to compensate for the inaccurate system identification or factors that cannot be identified easily but play a major role in vibration of a structure. A finite element model of a plate is considered and the effects of scaling the control gains are investigated. It is shown that there is an allowable region for tuning the control gain without loosing the stability. The result of this analysis is used in the experiment for adjusting the control gains.     

Application of dynamic vibration absorbers in structural vibration control under multi-frequency harmonic excitations

In this research, the response properties of a single-degree-of-freedom system under dual harmonic excitation are analyzed to provide some principles for the choice of time span and step in the simulations. The performances of dynamic vibration absorber (DVA) and state-switched absorber (SSA) are compared. The results indicate that dual DVAs almost have the same performance as the SSA. Moreover, dual DVAs compared with the SSA have some advantages such as lower ratio of tuning frequencies, more rapid optimization process and lower requirement for the anti-fatigue property of the material. Furthermore, the performances of different frequency-tuning methods are investigated. It is shown that the one-one method almost has the same performance as the optimization method and it does not need time-consuming optimization process.     

URLLC-oriented secure communication for UAV relay-assisted network

In this paper, we investigate the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay-assisted secure short packet communication. The UAV acts as a decode-and-forward relay to transmit control signals from the source to the actuators in the presence of a ground eavesdropper (EV) whose imperfect channel state information is available at the UAV. Specially, non-orthogonal multiple access is adopted in our work to achieve more connections and improve the fairness of communication and the short packets are employed for data transmission to reduce the latency. Explicitly, we maximize the minimum average secrecy throughput among all actuators by jointly optimizing the UAV trajectory, transmit power and blocklength allocation, which generates a challenging optimization problem. Therefore, we propose an iterative algorithm based on block coordinate descent method and successive convex approximation technique to handle the non-convex problem. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme has better performance compared to the benchmark schemes.     

射频激励等离子体非线性效应的FDTD数值模拟

在考虑热运动、电子复合、扩散等效应后，建立电磁波与等离子体相互作用模型，验证了射频激励等离子体时产生的二次、多次谐波以及各个不同频段信号的调制现象，得到了不同激励功率、产生电子的电场阈值、电子能量等参数对电磁波频谱的影响，这对于射频激励等离子体的电路匹配、耦合器件以及等离子体天线传输、电磁兼容等设计很有帮助. 关键词： 射频 谐波 等离子体 非线性     

Controlling X‐ray deformable mirrors during inspection

The X‐ray deformable mirror (XDM) is becoming widely used in the present synchrotron/free‐electron laser facilities because of its flexibility in correcting wavefront errors or modification of the beam size at the sample location. Owing to coupling among the N actuators of an XDM, (N + 1) or (2N + 1) scans are required to learn the response of each actuator one by one. When the mirror has an important number of actuators (N) and the actuator response time including stabilization or the necessary metrology time is long, the learning process can be time consuming. In this work, a fast and accurate method is presented to drive an XDM to a target shape usually with only three or four measurements during inspection. The metrology data are used as feedback to calculate the curvature discrepancy between the current and the target shapes. Three different derivative estimation methods are introduced to calculate the curvature from measured data. The mirror shape is becoming close to the target through iterative compensations. The feasibility of this simple and effective approach is demonstrated by a series of experiments.     

Level set based structural topology optimization for minimizing frequency response

For the purpose of structure vibration reduction, a structural topology optimization for minimizing frequency response is proposed based on the level set method. The objective of the present study is to minimize the frequency response at the specified points or surfaces on the structure with an excitation frequency or a frequency range, subject to the given amount of the material over the admissible design domain. The sensitivity analysis with respect to the structural boundaries is carried out, while the Extended finite element method (X-FEM) is employed for solving the state equation and the adjoint equation. The optimal structure with smooth boundaries is obtained by the level set evolution with advection velocity, derived from the sensitivity analysis and the optimization algorithm. A number of numerical examples, in the frameworks of two-dimension (2D) and three-dimension (3D), are presented to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed approach.     

A sensitivity-based structural damage identification method with unknown input excitation using transmissibility concept

Unknown input excitation and local damages universally coexist in a practical situation. Therefore, in this paper a structural damage identification method based on the transmissibility concept in state space domain is proposed without the need for input measurements. On the basis of the transformation matrix which is computed using the system Markov parameters in state space, the relationship between two different sets of acceleration response measurements can be formulated under the same input excitation. A sensitivity-based model updating approach is applied to identify the local damages by minimizing the difference between the measured response and the reconstructed response. The sensitivity of the dynamic acceleration response with respect to the elemental stiffness factors is derived analytically in the state space domain, which accelerates the process of damage identification. A numerical cantilever beam is employed to validate that the variation of structural parameters induced by the local damages can be accurately and effectively identified without the input excitation information by the proposed method even with measurement noise considered. A laboratory test is further carried out to verify the proposed structural damage identification method based on the response reconstruction technique.     

Simulating the effect of high-intensity sound on cetaceans: modeling approach and a case study for Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)

A finite element model is formulated to study the steady-state vibration response of the anatomy of a whale (Cetacea) submerged in seawater. The anatomy was reconstructed from a combination of two-dimensional (2D) computed tomography (CT) scan images, identification of Hounsfield units with tissue types, and mapping of mechanical properties. A partial differential equation model describes the motion of the tissues within a Lagrangean framework. The computational model was applied to the study of the response of the tissues within the head of a neonate Cuvier's beaked whale Ziphius cavirostris. The characteristics of the sound stimulus was a continuous wave excitation at 3500 Hz and 180 dB re: 1 microPa received level, incident as a plane wave. We model the beaked whale tissues embedded within a volume of seawater. To account for the finite dimensions of the computational volume, we increased the damping for viscous shear stresses within the water volume, in an attempt to reduce the contribution of waves reflected from the boundaries of the computational box. The mechanical response of the tissues was simulated including: strain amplitude; dissipated power; and pressure. The tissues are not likely to suffer direct mechanical or thermal damage, within the range of parameters tested.     

斜入射SH波厚壁管道内壁裂纹检测方法研究

厚壁管道常被用于军事装备及其他流程工业中,长期使用后内壁会产生较多微裂纹,成为影响构件安全运行的重大隐患。为此,本文针对厚壁管道内壁裂纹难以检测的问题,提出基于斜入射SH(Shear Horizontal)波的厚壁管道检测方法,对厚壁管道内壁不同深度的裂纹进行检测。本文首先对斜入射SH波的激励原理进行分析,建立声场模型优选激励频率,研究斜入射SH波与厚壁管道内壁裂纹径向深度的作用规律,并通过实验对仿真结果进行验证。研究结果表明,斜入射SH波对该型管道最佳检测频率为1MHz;随着裂纹径向深度增加,缺陷回波幅值呈现曲折型上升;斜入射SH波可有效对厚壁管道内壁轴向长8mm,径向深1mm和周向宽1mm的微裂纹进行检测,验证了斜入射SH波厚壁管道内壁裂纹检测方法的科学性和可行性。     

Support Vector Driven Genetic Algorithm for the Design of Circular Polarized Microstrip Antenna

In this paper, a hybrid soft computing method for designing specific microstrip antenna is presented. Evolutionary algorithm such as genetic algorithm (GA) is one of the promising ways of finding global optimum solution from a multivariate nonlinear feature space. Being a stochastic iterative algorithm, it requires much computation power when the function to be optimized is complex and time consuming. Various meta-modelling techniques such as neural network, response surface methods, kriging, etc. can be used to model the process under optimization in order to reduce the computational expenses. In this paper, we investigate one such technique – support vector regression (SVR) – to model the complex analytical process. The model, thus obtained, is used for optimization using genetic algorithms. This approach is demonstrated for the design of circular polarized microstrip antenna at 2.6 GHz band. The results of SVR model are compared with other meta-models generated with neural network and response surface methodology.     

Diffraction of homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves on a doubly corrugated liquid/solid interface

This paper extends the theory of the diffraction of sound on 1D corrugated surfaces to 2D corrugated surfaces. Such surfaces, that are egg crate shaped, diffract incoming sound into all polar directions, which is fundamentally different from 1D corrugated surfaces. A theoretical justification is given for extending the classical grating equation to the case of incident inhomogeneous waves, for 1D corrugated surfaces as well as for 2D corrugated surfaces. Even though the present paper presents a theory which is valid for all angles of incidence, special attention is given to the particular case of the stimulation of surface waves by normal incident sound. The most interesting conclusion is that, depending on the frequency and the incident inhomogeneity, Scholte-Stoneley waves and leaky Rayleigh waves can be generated in different directions. This effect might be of particular interest in the development of surface acoustic wave devices and the basic idea of this steering effect can be of importance for planar actuators.     

Analysis of Ti:LiNbO3 zero-gap directional coupler for wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer

For the purpose of multichannel integrated-optical wavelength division MUX/DEMUX design, the wavelength tuning method of Ti:LiNbO₃ zero-gap directional coupler is analysed by effective-index based matrix method (EIMM). In this method, first, the 2D refractive index profile of the Ti:LiNbO₃ zero-gap directional coupler is transformed into lateral 1D effective-index profile by WKB method. Finally, matrix method is applied to this effective-index profile and the propagation constants are computed from the resonance peaks of the excitation efficiency versus propagation constant characteristics. It has been shown that the channel wavelength tuning can be achieved by varying the Y-branching angle at the input and output of the device or by a slight variation of two-mode-section length. The method of electro-optic fine tuning of the channel wavelength and channel separation of the device has also been investigated. A cascaded structure with proper parameters for four-channel application is also simulated and the results are presented.     

Up-conversion luminescence tuning in Er~(3+) -doped ceramic glass by femtosecond laser pulse at different laser powers

The up-conversion luminescence tuning of rare-earth ions is an important research topic for understanding luminescence mechanisms and promoting related applications. In this paper, we experimentally study the up-conversion luminescence tuning of Er~(3+)-doped ceramic glass excited by the unshaped, V-shaped and cosine-shaped femtosecond laser field with different laser powers. The results show that green and red up-conversion luminescence can be effectively tuned by varying the power or spectral phase of the femtosecond laser field. We further analyze the up-conversion luminescence tuning mechanism by considering different excitation processes, including single-photon absorption(SPA), two-photon absorption(TPA), excited state absorption(ESA), and energy transfer up-conversion(ETU). The relative weight of TPA in the whole excitation process can increase with the increase of the laser power, thereby enhancing the intensity ratio between green and red luminescence(I_(547)/I_(656)). However, the second ETU(ETU2) process can generate red luminescence and reduce the green and red luminescence intensity ratio I_(547)/I_(656), while the third ESA(ESA3) process can produce green luminescence and enhance its control efficiency. Moreover, the up-conversion luminescence tuning mechanism is further validated by observing the up-conversion luminescence intensity, depending on the laser power and the down-conversion luminescence spectrum under the excitation of 400-nm femtosecond laser pulse. These studies can present a clear physical picture that enables us to understand the up-conversion luminescence tuning mechanism in rare-earth ions, and can also provide an opportunity to tune up-conversion luminescence to promote its related applications.     

Millimeter wave source in the rectangular waveguide cavity

This paper describes a power combiner of solid—state millimeter wave in rectangular cavity. The operating frequency is about 50 GHz. And the sources of excitation are GaAs Gunn deodes. Final presents the performance parameter, combining efficiency, tuning range, frequency drift, and FM noise, etc. This paper also presents a millimeter wave source of rectangular waveguide cavity. Using an exellent algorithm to design rectangular waveguide cavity of power combimer. The algorithm gives the mathematial model, on the basis of the mathematial model, using CAD of PC microcomputer to design the parameters of the cavity. This paper presents a program of CAD of micocomputer.     

变形镜高斯函数指数对迭代法自适应光学系统的影响

基于613单元自适应光学系统, 描述了迭代矩阵和斜率响应矩阵的特性. 在变形镜驱动器间距和交连值不变的情况下, 研究了变形镜高斯函数指数对迭代矩阵和斜率响应矩阵稀疏度的影响, 对自适应光学系统稳定性和校正能力的影响. 研究表明, 迭代矩阵和斜率响应矩阵的稀疏度随着变形镜高斯函数指数的增大而减小. 高斯函数指数过大或者过小都会影响自适应光学系统的稳定性和校正能力. 最后, 综合迭代矩阵和斜率响应矩阵的稀疏度、自适应光学系统的稳定性和校正能力, 给出了合理的变形镜高斯函数指数的取值范围.     

感应耦合等离子体中原子发射光谱的非局部热平衡 Ⅰ.非玻尔兹曼分布

本文叙述了在感应耦合等离子体中,原子激发过程可以用台阶式模型来近似,从而证实了激发态粒子数的局部非玻尔兹曼分布是等离子体光学薄性质的必然结果。从理论上讨论了局部非玻尔兹曼分布公式以及分布曲线弯曲时的拐点能量。