Dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12306034-B2
Application number	US-202117798685-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2021
Priority date	Oct 15, 2021
Publication date	May 20, 2025
Grant date	May 20, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data, including: collecting an acceleration-time curve of a bridge foundation structure when vibrating: collecting the acceleration-time curve of each bridge foundation structure in a scour state by a health monitoring system when each bridge foundation structure vibrates; obtaining a warning control threshold of abnormal warning of a time-frequency change of a first-time scour bridge evaluation reference mode by calculation; identifying an abnormal segment in frequency segments of a scoured bridge to be identified; identifying an abnormal time-frequency sequence in the time-frequency abnormal segment: updating a warning control threshold of its own random fluctuation of time-frequency characteristics of a bridge scour reference mode after completing scour early warning of the abnormal sequence, so as to prepare for next anomaly identification and scour early warning. The present disclosure provides a method for dynamically identifying a foundation scour depth by performing dynamic characteristic analysis of a structural system, and the identification method can realize the technical features of long-term dynamic scour monitoring and early warning of underwater foundations.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data performed by a computer having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program, wherein when the computer-executable program is executed by the processor, the program causes the processor to perform the method comprising the following steps:
step 1: receiving the health monitoring data containing an acceleration-time curve of a bridge foundation structure in a scour state from a health monitoring system, the acceleration-time curve being collected by the health monitoring system when the bridge foundation structure vibrates, and performing anti-interference factor pre-treatment on the acceleration-time curve;
step 2: by Fourier transform on the acceleration-time curve in step 1, obtaining a frequency-time curve of a bridge scour reference mode;
step 3: determining a value of a significance level value α, wherein step 3 comprises the following steps:
step 3.1: by using a kernel density estimation method, establishing a time-frequency probability distribution model of a bridge scour evaluation reference mode, and transforming a scour reference mode frequency into a random variable which obeys standard normal distribution;
step 3.2: according to the random variable which obeys the standard normal distribution, in combination with a Shewhart mean control chart, preliminarily setting the value of the significance level value α, and obtaining a probability distribution function corresponding to the significance level value α, and establishing a normal distribution probability model; and
step 3.3: performing identification sensitivity calibration according to the range of the preliminarily set value of the significance level value α;
step 4: bringing the significance level value α into the normal distribution probability model, and obtaining an upper control threshold UCL and a lower control threshold LCL of the abnormal warning of a time-frequency change of a first-time scour bridge evaluation reference mode by calculation;
step 5: identifying an abnormal segment in frequency segments of a scoured bridge to be identified:
step 6: identifying an abnormal time-frequency sequence in the time-frequency abnormal segment, wherein step 6 comprises the following steps:
step 6.1: the time-frequency abnormal segment comprising a plurality of time-frequency sequences, identifying time-frequency abnormal sequences in the plurality of time-frequency sequences:
setting identification parameters of the time-frequency abnormal sequence, the identification parameters of the time-frequency abnormal sequence comprising a time-duration ratio parameter P L/U ′ of an abnormal reference frequency sequence, a time interval parameter Ts' between two adjacent abnormal frequencies, and a change difference parameter M s ′ of a mean value of scour reference frequencies;
step 6.2: calculating the time-duration ratio parameter P L/U of the abnormal frequency sequence of the abnormal segment:
P L/U =T ab /T t0

wherein, T ab is the time duration of the frequency sequence exceeding the upper control threshold UCL or the lower control threshold LCL, and T t0 is the total time duration of the abnormal segment;
calculating Ts of the abnormal segment, Ts being a time interval between two adjacent Tabs;
when P L/U >P L/U ′, and Ts<Ts′, it is determined that the time-frequency sequence is the abnormal sequence, and step 6.3 is started, otherwise, it is determined that the time-frequency sequence is normal;
step 6.3: calculating a scour reference frequency time sequence mean value change difference M s in the time-frequency abnormal sequence:
M s ′|M 1 −M 2 |

wherein M 1 is a frequency mean value of the time-frequency abnormal sequence, and M 2 is a frequency mean value of the normal segment in a healthy state of the previous of abnormal segment with the same time interval;
when M s ≤M s ′, it is determined that the abnormal sequence is in normal signal oscillation; when M s >M s ′, scour early warning is performed for the abnormal sequence; and
step 7: after completing the scour early warning of the abnormal sequence, repeating steps 5-6 and updating the upper control threshold and the lower control threshold of random fluctuation of time-frequency characteristics of the bridge scour reference mode so as to prepare for the next anomaly identification and scour early warning.

2. The dynamic identification method of bridge scour based on health monitoring data according to claim 1 , wherein step 1 specifically comprises the following steps:
step 1.1: after obtaining the acceleration-time curve of each bridge foundation in the scour state by the health monitoring system when each bridge foundation structure vibrates, removing a high-order frequency signal in the acceleration-time curve by using a filter and a signal detrending function;
step 1.2: calculating and processing to obtain a missing signal length in a frequency-time curve:
firstly, defining an index structure missing:

Missing
=

[

s
1

e
1

s
2

e
2

…

…

s
m

s
m

…

…

s
k

e
k

]

wherein, S m , e m are respectively beginning and ending indexes of missing data in the m segment; k is the total number of segments with missing data; a missing signal length in the m segment is missing, longm=e m −S m ;
when the missing signal length is less than a length tolerance threshold, the missing signal length is filled by an extension filling method; and
when the missing signal length is greater than the length tolerance threshold, discarding the missing signal length;
step 1.3: identifying and removing outliers in the frequency-time curve, and supplementing the removed outliers by using a numerical interpolation method; and
step 1.4: removing the temperature effect in the acceleration-time curve obtained by the processing in step 1.3, and obtaining a frequency-time curve of the bridge sc

Assignees

• Univ Southeast

Inventors

• Xiong Wen
• Zhang Rongzhao

Classifications

• Y02T90/00

  Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation · CPC title

• G06F18/2433

  Single-class perspective, e.g. one-against-all classification; Novelty detection; Outlier detection · CPC title

• G06F2218/12

  Classification; Matching · CPC title

• G01H17/00 Primary

  Measuring mechanical vibrations or ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves, not provided for in the other groups of this subclass · CPC title

• G01H1/00 Primary

  Measuring {characteristics of} vibrations in solids by using direct conduction to the detector (G01H9/00, G01H11/00 take precedence) · CPC title