Identification of beam-column joint damage in a planar steel

framed structure with the help of convolutional neural

network technique.

SUPERVISOR:
Dr. Joy Pal
December 15th, 2020
 Presentation Content

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Research gaps
• Proposed Methodology
• Problem Formulation
• References
 ABSTRACT

Steel frame structures are primarily used for large commercial structures such as industrial
buildings, garages, large agricultural buildings, warehouses as well as for bridges and high rise
buildings for many of its advantages over other form of construction such as high strength and
durability, ease of fabrication and less construction time etc. Steel frame structures are a beam-
column assembly which are often connected by weld or fasteners (bolts or rivets) forming a rigid
joint. This beam-column joint is the most vulnerable part in the entire structure which can be easily
damaged. In this study, a planar steel framed structure is modelled in the finite element framework
with two node beam elements having two degrees of freedom at each node. The joint damage is
introduced by modifying the structural properties of elements near to the joint. The response versus
time plots were obtained for both the damaged and the undamaged states and this data set is
collected . Deep learning (CNN) is introduced in order to detect vibration based damage in real
time. The advantage of CNN is its ability to extract optimal damage sensitive feature from raw
response-time signals.
Introduction
 What is Structural Health Monitoring?

“The process of implementing a damage detection and characterization strategy for engineering
structures”

Assessment of Structural Health

• Detecting the existence of the damage on the structure
• Locating the damage
• Identifying the type of damage
• Quantifying the severity of the damage.
 Objective of SHM

• Performance enhancement of an existing structure

• Monitoring of structures affected by external factors
• Feedback loop to improve future design based on experience
• Assessment of post-earthquake structural integrity
• To move towards performance based design philosophy
 Literature Review
S.No. Title Author Year of Findings
Publicatio
n
1 Performance of damage detection algorithms for Joy Pal, Vishal Shah and 2013 FRF curvature-based damage
health monitoring of joints in steel frame structures Sauvik Banerjee detection algorithm is
using vibration-based techniques found to be most effective
among all the algorithms
addressed.

2 Vibration-based damage detection techniques used for health monitoring of Swagato Das, P. Saha, S. K. 2016 Time series
structures: a review Patro analysis proves to more
successfully in damage
identification
than the rest of the methods.

3 Vibration-based structural state identification by a 1-dimensional Youqi Zhang, Yasunori
convolutional neural network Miyamori, Shuichi
Mikami, Takehiko Saito
2019 This study proposes a simple
one dimensional
CNN that detects tiny local
structural stiffness and mass
changes, and
validates the proposed CNN
on actual structures.

4 Health Monitoring of Civil Structures with Integrated UAV and Image S. Sankarasrinivasan, E.
Processing System Balasubramanian, K.
Karthika, U. Chandrasekar
and Rishi Gupta
2015 The proposed frameworks
integrates UAVs, image
processing and data
acquisition procedures for
crack detection and
 Literature Review
S.No. Title Author Year of Findings
Publication
5 Real-time vibration-based structural damage detection using one- Osama Abdeljaber, Onur 2017 Large-scale ex- periments
dimensional convolutional neural networks Avci, Serkan Kiranyaz, conducted on a grandstand
Moncef Gabbouj, Daniel simulator revealed an
J.Inman outstanding performance and
verified the computational
efficiency of the proposed
real-time damage detection
method.
6 Structural Health Monitoring using deep learning with optimal Panagiotis Seventekidis, 2020 The presented combination
finite element model generated data Dimitrios Giagopoulos, of optimal FE and DL is a
Alexandros Arailopoulos, potential
Olga Markogiannaki solution for future SHM
tools and further
investigation is encouraged.
 Research Gap/Research Scope

• Vulnerability of Beam-Column Joint

• Very little research on beam-column joint damage detection
• Deep learning concept (CNN)
Project Methodology
 Problem Formulation
In order to identify the damage, a single storied 2-dimensional plane steel frame model is chosen.
The frame will be modelled using finite element method on commercially available MatLAB
software. 2D beam elements are used to model the frame with 2 degrees of freedom at each node.
The damage is introduced by reducing the cross-section of the beam elements near to the beam-
column joint on both the sides of the frame.
 Detailing of frame model for damage identification

Parameters Value/Details
Length of Column 500 mm
Length of Beam 300 mm
Cross-section 6mm * 32 mm
Young’s Modulus of Elasticity 210 GPa
Poison’s Ratio 0.3
Density 7850 Kg/m^3
Point of application of Force Top node of left column
 References
• Int. J. Structural engineering, vol. 4, no. 4, 2013. Performance of damage detection algorithms for health monitoring of joints in steel frame structures
using vibration-based techniques. Joy Pal, Vishal Shah and Sauvik Banerjee

• J Civil Struct Health Monit (2016) 6:477–507. Vibration-based damage detection techniques used for health monitoring of structures: a review. Swagato
Das, P. Saha, S. K. Patro

• Vibration-based structural state identification by a 1-dimensional convolutional neural network. Youqi Zhang, Yasunori Miyamori, Shuichi Mikami,
Takehiko Saito

• Eleventh International Multi-Conference on Information Processing-2015 (IMCIP-2015). Health Monitoring of Civil Structures with Integrated UAV and
Image Processing System. S. Sankarasrinivasan, E. Balasubramanian, K. Karthika, U. Chandrasekar and Rishi Gupta

• Real-time vibration-based structural damage detection using one-dimensional convolutional neural networks. Osama Abdeljaber, Onur Avci, Serkan
Kiranyaz, Moncef Gabbouj, Daniel J.Inman

• Structural Health Monitoring using deep learning with optimal finite element model generated data. Panagiotis Seventekidis, Dimitrios Giagopoulos,
Alexandros Arailopoulos, Olga Markogiannaki

• Structural Dynamics-Theory of Computation Sixth Edition. Mario Paz, Young Hoon Kim.