RESEARCH ARTICLE
A New Structural Damage Identification Method Based on Wavelet Packet Energy Entropy of Impulse Response
Can He1, Jianchun Xing*, 1, Juelong Li2, Wei Qian2, Xun Zhang1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 9
First Page: 570
Last Page: 576
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-9-570
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501509010570
Article History:
Received Date: 17/3/2015Revision Received Date: 2/6/2015
Acceptance Date: 8/6/2015
Electronic publication date: 24/8/2015
Collection year: 2015
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Abstract
Excitation makes a great influence on the wavelet energy distribution of the response signal, this deficiency leads that the traditional structural damage identification method based on wavelet energy has a low precision. In order to solve this problem, a new structural damage identification method based on wavelet packet energy entropy (WPEE) of impulse response is presented in this paper. Firstly, natural excitation technique (NExT) is adopted to extract structural impulse response. Then, WPEE of the impulse response is computed, and the change rate of WPEE is used to construct the structural damage index. An experiment of damage identification on a pile structure is provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. Experiment results show that this method can accurately identify the single damage and multi-damage.