Detection of the support damage of spatial steel structures under earthquakes based on shaking table test

There are always some local damages in spatial steel structures induced by strong earthquakes, such as welding cracks of steel nodes, anchor loose of supports etc. If these local damages of spatial steel structures occur, there will be serious dangers to the structural safety. In order to detect the position of local damage under earthquake quickly and accurately, the method of support damage diagnosis of spatial steel structures under earthquakes is studied by using wavelet packet decomposition, data fusion and cluster analysis. Furthermore, a scale model of spatial steel structure was tested on a seismic simulation shaking table to detect the position of damaged support. Results show that the damaged support position can be detected accurately by using the method proposed in this paper, which has practical applications to the damage detection of spatial steel structures.