A review of operational modal analysis techniques for in-service modal identification

FB Zahid, ZC Ong, SY Khoo - Journal of the Brazilian Society of …, 2020 - Springer
Vibrations are the root cause of many mechanical and civil structure failures. Dynamic
characteristics of a structure must be extracted to better understand structural vibrational …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and managing identification uncertainty of close modes in operational modal analysis

SK Au, JMW Brownjohn, B Li, A Raby - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2021 - Elsevier
Close modes are much more difficult to identify than well-separated modes and their
identification (ID) results often have significantly larger uncertainty or variability. The …

Closely spaced modes identification through modified frequency domain decomposition

CX Qu, TH Yi, HN Li, B Chen - Measurement, 2018 - Elsevier
In practical engineering, power spectral density is always used to identify structural dynamic
properties by picking peak points. However, the peaks in the spectral curve are not easy to …

A target-free video structural motion estimation method based on multi-path optimization

E Cai, Y Zhang, X Lu, P Li, T Zhao, G Lin… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The vibration data are quite important for structural health monitoring (SHM). This paper
proposed a novel method, to adaptively estimate video motions of the structure in subpixel …

Frequencies and damping ratios of bridges through Operational Modal Analysis using smartphones

S Castellanos-Toro, M Marmolejo, J Marulanda… - … and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Seismic Force Assessment in structural design of bridges requires a good
estimation of the fundamental period. Estimated periods, using current methodologies in …

Estimating small structural motions from multi-view video measurement

E Cai, Y Zhang, X Ji, X Lu, L Xie, Y Zhuang, T Zhao… - Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The phase-based estimation, as one type of target-free methods, can estimate small
structural motions from video data. However, in the two-dimensional (2D) domain, this …

Estimating small structural motions based on sparsity enforcement

E Cai, Y Zhang, X Lu, X Ji, Y Li, J Li… - … ‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper proposed a novel, efficient method to estimate challenging small structural
motions from noisy video. To eliminate the phase limitation, ill‐posed problem, and high …

Influence of system changes on closely spaced modes of a large-scale concrete tower for the application to structural health monitoring

C Jonscher, L Liesecke, N Penner, B Hofmeister… - Journal of Civil …, 2023 - Springer
Concrete steel towers are increasingly being used for onshore wind turbines. The lower part
consists of separated segmented concrete rings connected with dry joints. Due to slight …

Field measurement and wind tunnel experimental investigation of a supertall building with closely spaced modes under typhoon Mangkhut

H Pan, SK Au, J Fu, A Xu, Y He - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the analysis of full-scale measurement of the Leatop Plaza (303 m)
under a super typhoon (ie, Mangkhut), during which field data such as wind speed, wind …

Structural flexibility identification via moving-vehicle-induced time-varying modal parameters

Y Tian, J Zhang - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2020 - Elsevier
To overcome the limitation of existing methods only identifying basic dynamic properties of
bridge structures, a moving vehicle strategy was proposed to identify more meaningful …