DAMAGE EVALUATION ON STEEL MEMBERS SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC RESPONSE USING THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES WITH FREQUENCY DEPENDENCY

Abstract

After the earthquake events, building damage assessment is detected by experts. However, in fact, it takes a long time to conduct the assessment process during field survey. Also, it is worried about ensuring the safety of the surveys. In recent years, structural health monitoring has been attempted. This paper suggests a damage evaluation method based on temperature measurement using thermoelectric devices. The cyclic loading tests were conducted as parameters with the loading amplitude; three types of constant amplitude, and three types of variable amplitude with gradual decrease, gradual increase, and random amplitude, totaling six types of dynamic cyclic bending. As a result of applying the damage evaluation method to the loading test, it was confirmed that the cumulative damage calculated from the temperature measurement and the cumulative damage calculated from the input displacement were almost equal. In addition, seismic response analysis was conducted using an analytical model of a four-story building, and the effectiveness of the measurement method using thermoelectric devices was examined. The results of seismic response analysis shows that the natural frequency of the primary mode of the displacement response was lower than 4Hz, and the results of the sweep loading test confirmed that the thermoelectric devices captured the waveform of the temperature up to 4Hz.