DETECTION OF MIMOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE USING CHAOTIC EXCITATION AND ATTRACTOR-BASED DAMAGE INDICATOR

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new attractor-based structural damage detection technique using chaotic excitation. We reconstruct attractors from responses and obtain quantitative features from the response attractors by using Recurrence Analysis. We use this feature as damage indicator. By comparing indicators between intact and damage structures, we detect and localize structural damage. The robustness against noise and sensitivity to minor damage of the proposed method are shown through numerical examples, in which we assume minor damage to a structure and high noises on input excitation and observed data.