field testing & monitoring of structural performance
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George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. Field Testing & Monitoring of Structural Performance. John W. Wallace Joel P. Conte Deborah Estrin Patrick J. Fox Jonathan P. Stewart Daniel Whang. University of California, Los Angeles 7 NCEEJuly 21-24, 2002. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Field Testing & Monitoringof Structural Performance
University of California, Los Angeles7 NCEE July 21-24, 2002
George E. Brown, Jr.Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
John W. WallaceJoel P. ConteDeborah EstrinPatrick J. FoxJonathan P. StewartDaniel Whang
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Acknowledgements
Funding provided through a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
– Dr. Priscilla P. Nelson, Director
Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems
– Joy Pauschke, Ph.D., P.E., NEES Program Director
– Thomas L. Anderson, Ph.D.
NEES Equipment Project Coordinator
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UCLA NEES Personnel
John W. Wallace (PI)PhD, UC Berkeley, 1989Structural
Joel P. Conte (co-PI)PhD, UC Berkeley, 1990Structural
Jonathan Stewart (co-PI)PhD, UC Berkeley, 1996Geotechnical
Patrick J. Fox (co-PI)PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1992, Geotechnical
Deborah Estrin (co-PI)PhD, MIT, 1985Computer Science
Daniel Whang (Project Manager)PhD, UCLA, 2001Geotechnical
Eunjong Yu (Graduate Student Researcher)
William Elmer(Engineering Aide)
Colin Means (Engineering Aide)
Balaji Vasu (Webmaster)
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Project Overview
Wireless
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Equipment Overview
State-of-the-art data acquisition system w/ wireless capabilities
Networking equipment to enable near real-time field connectivity to NEESgrid
Forced vibration equipment (shakers)
Cone penetration truck for rapid soil characterization
Structural sensors for acceleration, strain, displacement
Custom soil probes for measuring ground vibrations
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Data Acquisition System
Vendor: Kinemetrics, Inc. True 24-bit resolution/large
dynamic bandwidth (155 dB) Quanterra Q330 data loggers
are true network devices with wireless capabilities (TCP/IP)
Powerful UNIX based data acquisition software program, Antelope
– Remote monitoring– Relational database
embedded
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Local Area Network
Sensors/Video Data acquisition
system/video server Satellite Campus gigabit
backbone NEESpop Visualization portal NEESgrid
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Eccentric Mass Shakers
MK-14A (1):– Omni-directional– 0 to 4.2 Hz– 20 kips peak force
MK-15 (2):– Uni-directional– 0 to 25 Hz– 100 kips peak force– Can be synchronized
MK-14B (1):– Omni-directional– 0 to 10 Hz– 50 kips peak force– Rapidly deployable (assembly
time < 4 man hours)
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Linear Inertial Shaker
“Shake Table”– Mass on rails, Actuator– 30 gpm HPS, Accumulators– Digital control system
Mounting requirements– Table with Actuator support
System Limitations– Ms (weight) – 1 to 7 kips– Actuator (+/- 15 inches)– Force (15,000 pounds)
Advantages– Random load history– Time domain analysis
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MassActuator
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Cone Penetration Truck
Vendor: Hogentogler, Inc Site characterization Installation of soil probes
to measure ground vibrations during forced vibration tests of full-scale structures
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Custom Soil Probes
Drive shoe
Probe
Triaxial accelerometer
Cable Deployable/retrievable
Triaxial (3 channels)
Measure in situ ground
accelerations
Feed directly to Q330
data
loggers
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Research Vision
Data Collection
PointSoil Probes
To Command Center
Shaker
Obtain detailed performance data for linear and nonlinear response of structural systems
Address scale and boundary conditions issues commonly associated with lab studies
Provide data to study system interactions, e.g. SFSI
Develop new sensor (packaging) concepts
Obtain high resolution response data to promote advances in simulation
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Equipment Integration
Pilot Study #1– Data acquisition
Pilot Study #2– Laboratory testing– Shakers, sensors,
data acquisition Pilot Study #3
– Field testing– Soil probes (final)– Satellite system
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Pilot Study #2
SDOF steel frame – 15 ft (L) x 13 ft (H) x 6 ft (W)– Structure weight ~3.6 kips
Free-vibration testing Forced-vibration testing
– Shaker weight ~ 5 kips– Longitudinal direction– Acceleration sensors– Strain sensors
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Basic System Identification
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LAN for Pilot Study #2
Instruments: Episensors, pulser
Real-time Wireless transmission of data from data logger in UCLA structural laboratory to UCLA NEES Office
Real-time transmission of data from webserver in UCLA NEES Office to outside world via Antelope
Mock run (at UCLA) of real operation scenario in the field
Antelope Workstation
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Pilot Study #3
PS #2 specimen on alternative foundation configurations
– Investigate effect on SFSI
Shaking in transverse direction
Dense instrumentation on structure, ground surface and subsurface
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Tele-observable Data Streams
Excitation response history
Recorded response histories at sensors
Deck/foundation transfer functions (fixed base)
Deck/foundation transfer functions (flexible base)
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Website – http://cee.ucla.edu/nees/