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Title: | Dynamic assessment of shear connection conditions in slab-girder bridges by Kullback-Leibler distance | Authors: | Zhu, XQ Hao, H Uy, B Xia, Y Mirza, O |
Issue Date: | May-2012 | Source: | Advances in structural engineering, May 2012, v. 15, no. 5, p. 771-780 | Abstract: | Shear connectors are widely used in composite bridges that provide composite action. Their damage will reduce the load-carrying capacity of the structure. In this study, a novel method based on Kullback-Leibler distance (KLD) was developed to assess the integrity of the shear connectors. A bridge model was constructed in the laboratory and some removable anchors were specially designed and fabricated to link the beams and slab that were cast separately. Each anchor consists of a threaded bar that penetrates through the soffit of the beam and ties up into an embedded nut cap to simulate a shear connector in the real bridges. Different damage scenarios were introduced by pulling out some connectors. Vibration tests were carried out in each damage scenario. Various damage detection methods have been applied and results show that the method was able to detect all the assumed damage scenarios successfully and consistently. | Keywords: | Connection model Damage detection Vibration Slab-girder bridges Kullback-Leibler measure |
Publisher: | Multi-Science | Journal: | Advances in structural engineering | ISSN: | 1369-4332 | EISSN: | 2048-4011 | DOI: | 10.1260/1369-4332.15.5.771 | Rights: | © Multi-Science Publishing Posted with permission of the publisher. |
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