TY - JOUR A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir T1 - Dynamic track-soil interaction – calculations and measurements about slab and ballast tracks N2 - The dynamic behaviour of slab and ballast tracks has been investigated by measurements and calculations. Hammer impacts and train passages have been analysed. Measurements have been performed by geophones (velocity transducers) which have been time-integrated to displacements. The calculations are done in frequency-wavenumber domain for multi-beam-on-continuous soil models. The characteristics of the different tracks and track elements have been established in theory and experiment. The frequency-dependent compliances (displacement transfer functions) show clear rail-on-rail-pad resonances or highly damped track-soil resonances. Compared to the rail and sleeper, the track plate has much lower amplitudes. The slab track has usually the highest rail amplitudes due to soft rail pads. The train passage yields track displacements which are a superposition of the axle loads from the two neighbouring axles of a bogie and from the two bogies of two neighbouring carriages. This global behaviour is characteristic for the track plate of the slab track whereas the rails of the slab and the ballast track behave more local with only one bogie of influence. The measurements agree very well with the theory of the continuous soil in case of the six measured slab tracks and acceptably well for the six measured ballast tracks. The measurements allow to find appropriate model parameters and to check the models, for example the Winkler model of the soil has been found less appropriate as it reacts more locally. KW - Slab track KW - Ballast track KW - Train passage KW - Hammer impact KW - Track-soil interaction PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.A1900651 SN - 1673-565X VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 21 EP - 36 PB - Zhejiang University Press CY - Hangzhou AN - OPUS4-52107 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hu, W.-H A1 - Tang, D.-H. A1 - Wang, M. A1 - Liu, J.-L. A1 - Li, Z.-H. A1 - Lu, W. A1 - Teng, J. A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Rohrmann, R. G. T1 - Resonance Monitoring of a Horizontal Wind Turbine by Strain-Based Automated Operational Modal Analysis N2 - A strain-based automated operational modal analysis algorithm is proposed to track the long-term dynamic behavior of a horizontal wind turbine under operational conditions. This algorithm is firstly validated by a scaled wind turbine model, and then it is applied to the dynamic strain responses recorded from a 5 MW wind turbine system. We observed variations in the fundamental frequency and 1f, 3f excitation frequencies due to the mass imbalance of the blades and aerodynamic excitation by the tower dam or tower wake. Inspection of the Campbell diagram revealed that the adverse resonance phenomenon and Sommerfeld effect causing excessive vibrations of the wind tower. KW - Strain KW - Automated operational modal analysis KW - Resonance KW - Horizontal wind turbine PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-503350 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030579 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 579 EP - 584 PB - MDPI CY - Schweiz, Basel AN - OPUS4-50335 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Environmental vibration due to railway traffic with different train speeds N2 - Measurement of railway vibration on a bridge, a surface and a tunnel line. Amplitude-distance law for different train speeds. Theoretical and experimental transfer functions of the soil. Spectra of the ground vibration at r = 3, 5, 10, 20, 30 and 50 m for the train speeds 60, 100, 160 km/h. T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Vibrations CY - Taipei, Taiwan DA - 28.11.2007 KW - Ground vibration KW - Train passage KW - Train speed PY - 2007 AN - OPUS4-47087 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Environmental vibration due to explosions – propagation of different waves N2 - Time records of the soil response to the hammer and the Explosion excitation. Spectra of the soil response to the hammer and explosion excitation. Amplitude-distance law for different TNT weight equivalents. T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Vibrations CY - Taipei, Taiwan DA - 28.11.2007 KW - Explosion KW - Ground vibration KW - Wave propagation KW - Amplitude-distance law PY - 2007 AN - OPUS4-47088 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Auersch, Lutz T1 - Environmental vibration due to heavy mass drop N2 - Drop test facility of BAM and the location of strain, stress, velocity and acceleration sensors. Time records of the concrete strain, the soil stress and the foundation acceleration. T2 - 3rd International Symposium on Environmental Vibrations CY - Taipei, Taiwan DA - 28.11.2007 KW - Drop test KW - Foundation behaviour KW - Soil stress KW - Foundation strain KW - Foundation acceleration PY - 2007 AN - OPUS4-47089 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir T1 - Track-soil dynamics – calculation and measurement of damaged and repaired slab tracks N2 - The damage detection and repair control have become important tasks for ballast and slab tracks. Measurements which compare the damaged and the repaired status of the same track section at different times, or which compare a damaged and an intact track section at the same time, have been successfully performed at some sites in Germany. The loss of contact between the sleeper and the track plate, between the track plate and the base plate, and between the base plate and the base layer have been analysed. The soil properties of each site have been measured and have been used to establish realistic track-soil models. Theoretical results of the wavenumber domain and the finite-element boundary element method have been compared with the experimental results. The observed experimental and theoretical results, changes in the time histories of displacements and velocities due to train passages and in the transfer functions (receptances) due to hammer impacts, are encouraging that these measurements can be used to detect track damage. KW - Railway track KW - Slab track KW - Track-soil interaction KW - Field tests KW - Track damage KW - Monitoring KW - Finite element method KW - Boundary element method PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2017.06.003 SN - 2214-3912 VL - 12 IS - September SP - 1 EP - 14 PB - Elsevier CY - London AN - OPUS4-42581 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Luong, Thi Mai Hoa A1 - Lorenz, W. A1 - Rohrmann, R.G. A1 - Zabel, V. A1 - Said, Samir ED - Springer, Cham, T1 - Finite Element Model Calibration of a Historic Wiegmann–Polonceau Truss Based on Experimental Modal Parameters N2 - This paper describes the experimental calibration of an existing Wiegmann–Polonceau roof truss based on modal parameters. Dynamic tests allowed the determination of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the global truss and of individual truss members. The global and local modal configurations as well as coupled vibration of truss members are discussed. In addition, as truss members are axially loaded, the effect of stress stiffening on the modal parameters is considered. Moreover, several finite element models with different modelling assumptions for the details of the connections and member geometrical characteristics such as gusset plates and turnbuckles were developed. A suitable numerical model was chosen to represent the truss structural behavior. This paper focuses on the local measurement and analysis strategies applied to single truss members. The possibility of using a local analysis method, namely methods that consider individual members as part of a structure, is demonstrated to assess the behavior of the global truss structure. The comparison of the results after calibration reveals a very good correlation between the experimentally identified and numerically estimated modal parameters of the historic truss. KW - Modal parameters KW - Axial force KW - Dynamic test KW - Finite element method KW - Truss structures PY - 2017 SN - 978-3-319-67443-8 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67443-8_18 SN - 2366-2557 VL - 5 SP - 212 EP - 224 PB - Springer International Publishing ET - 1 AN - OPUS4-42524 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Zhu, Shaocheng T1 - Dynamic testing of track damage before and after construction, after damage and after repair N2 - The Federal Institute of Material Research and Testing (BAM) has collected some experience with the testing of damaged, repaired and newly constructed railway tracks. The experimental methods are hammer testing of the track at different positions, hammer testing of the soil, measurement of train passages, and in all cases, measurements with geophones at different positions. The measured signals are evaluated for wave velocities (dispersion of the soil or the track-soil system), for transfer functions (transfer admittances of the soil, compliances of the track in amplitude and phase), and one-third octave band spectra of the track response to hammer and train excitation. These methods are applied at different stages of the track construction. Before track construction, wave velocities and transfer functions of the sub-soil can indicate problems with soft soils. After track construction, a check of the acceptable state of the track can be done by comparison of many excitation positions and track sites. After a track damage (a lose sleeper or a lose plate of a slab track) and after its repair, the sensitivity of the different measurement quantities to different track errors and the achieved improvement of the repair can be determined. The contribution shows examples of all these track situations T2 - Int. Conf. on Rail Transportation CY - Chengdu, China DA - 10.07.2017 KW - Track damage KW - Dynamic testing KW - Hammer tests KW - Train passages PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-42490 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hu, W.-H. A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Rohrmann, R. A1 - Cunha, À. A1 - Teng, J. T1 - Continuous dynamic monitoring of a prestressed concrete bridge based on strain, inclination and crack measurements over a 14-year span N2 - The Westend Bridge is located on the A100 Highway in Berlin. An integrated continuous dynamic monitoring system, composed of 20 velocity sensors, 5 temperature sensors, 3 strain gauges, 1 crack sensor and 2 inclination sensors, was implemented by the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in 2000. The system runs continuously with occasional intermittence and led to a huge amount of data over a 14-year span. In this article, variations of the strain, crack and inclination measurements during the last 14 years are presented. It is noted that the observed crack and inclination of the bridge are strongly influenced by seasonal temperature variation. It further induces change in the relationship between the strains measured in both concrete and prestressed tendon. Application of k-means cluster Analysis technique in both the crack and strain measurements can partition them into different seasonal phases by identifying ‘turning points’ that indicate annual periodical bridge change. In the period of these two ‘turning points’, a strong linear relation of the strains in two materials is observed. In the rest of the year, a nonlinear relationship between the strains recorded in both the concrete and the prestressed tendon is noted. The possible reason is the additional thermal load due to the change in temperature difference between the bridge’s surface and soffit. Finally, a health index in a Framework of regression model and process control theory is proposed by investigating the linear relationship between the strains in concrete and prestressed tendon. The tendency of the health index in the 14 years may suggest the long-term bridge change during that time frame. KW - Detection of structural change KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Strain KW - Crack KW - Inclination KW - Bridge PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/1475921717735505 VL - 17 IS - 5 SP - 1073 EP - 1094 PB - SAGE CY - USA/UK AN - OPUS4-45990 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hu, Wei-Hua A1 - Tang, De-Hui A1 - Teng, Jun A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Rohrmann, Rolf T1 - Structural health monitoring of a prestressed concrete bridge based on statistical pattern recognition of continuous dynamic measurements over 14 years N2 - This work describes a vibration-based structural health monitoring of a prestressed-concrete box girder bridge on the A100 Highway in Berlin by applying statistical pattern recognition technique to a huge amount of data continuously collected by an integrated monitoring system during the period from 2000 to 2013. Firstly, the general condition and potential damage of the bridge is described. Then, the dynamic properties are extracted from 20 velocity sensors. Environmental variability captured by five thermal transducers and traffic intensity approximately estimated by strain measurements are also reported. Nonlinear influences of temperature on natural frequencies are observed. Subsequently, the measurements during the first year are used to build a baseline health index. The multiple linear regression (MLR) method is used to characterize the nonlinear relationship between natural frequencies and temperatures. The Euclidean distance of the residual errors is calculated to build a statistical health index. Finally, the indices extracted from the following years gradually deviate; which may indicate structural deterioration due to loss of prestress in the prestressed tendons. KW - Bridge KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Statistical pattern recognition KW - Temperature effect PY - 2018 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-468126 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/s18124117 SN - 1424-8220 VL - 18 IS - 12 SP - 4117, 1 EP - 28 PB - MDPI CY - 4052 Basel, Schweiz AN - OPUS4-46812 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir T1 - Dynamic testing of tracks and track sites before and after construction, after damage and after repair N2 - The Federal Institute of Material Research and Testing (BAM) has collected some experience with the testing of damaged, repaired and newly constructed railway tracks. The experimental methods are hammer testing of the track at different positions, hammer testing of the soil, measurement of train passages, and in all cases, measurements with geophones at different positions. The measured signals are evaluated for wave velocities (dispersion of the soil or the track-soil system), for transfer functions (transfer admittances of the soil, compliances of the track in amplitude and phase), and one-third octave band spectra of the track response to hammer and train excitation. These methods are applied at different stages of the track construction. Before track construction, wave velocities and transfer functions of the sub-soil can indicate problems with soft soils. After track construction, a check of the acceptable state of the track can be done by comparison of many excitation positions and track sites. After a track damage (a lose sleeper or a lose plate of a slab track) and after its repair, the sensitivity of the different measurement quantities to different track errors and the achieved improvement of the repair can be determined. The contribution shows examples of all these track situations. T2 - First International Conference on Rail Transportation CY - Chengdu, China DA - 10.7.2017 KW - Track damage KW - Dynamic testing KW - Hammer tests KW - Train passages PY - 2017 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - Southwest Jiaotong University CY - Chengdu, China AN - OPUS4-42090 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auersch, Lutz A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Müller, Roger T1 - Measurements on the vehicle-track interaction and the excitation of railway-induced ground vibration N2 - Two railway measurement campaigns have been performed in Germany and Switzerland which yield insight in the vehicle-track-soil interaction. The campaign in Germany has included simultaneous measurement of vehicle, track, and soil vibrations during train runs with 16, 25, 40, 63, 80, 100, 125, 140, 160 km/h, and impulse measurements of the passenger car, three track sections and the soil. Two ballast tracks, one on the soil surface and one on a concrete bridge, have been investigated as well as a slab track in a tunnel. Ten different sites in Switzerland have been measured for soil properties and train-induced ground vibrations, which allow to determine the excitation forces of the railway traffic. New axle-box measurements at some of the Swiss sites have been analysed to get further experimental evidence. All these measurements have been evaluated to characterize the excitation processes. Relations between vehicle vibration and ground vibration can be observed. The vehicle vibrations, namely the accelerations of the wheelsets, yield the dynamic forces due to the passage over the irregularities of the vehicle and the track. The ground vibrations are correlated to these dynamic forces to a certain extent. Some mid-frequency ground vibration amplitudes, however, are higher than expected from the dynamic excitation forces. The experimental observations can be explained by an irregular response to the passage of the static loads, that means the passage of the static loads over an irregular ballast or soil. This correct understanding of the excitation processes is important for the prediction as well as for the mitigation of railway induced ground vibrations. T2 - X INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (EURODYN 2017) KW - Vehicle-track interaction KW - Ground vibration KW - Track vibration KW - Railway measurement campaign KW - Axle box measurements PY - 2017 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-420889 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.390 SN - 1877-7058 VL - 199 SP - 2615 EP - 2620 PB - Elsevier CY - London AN - OPUS4-42088 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hu, W.‐H. A1 - Álvaro Cunha, Á. A1 - Caetano, E. A1 - Rohrmann, R. G. A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Teng, J. T1 - Comparison of different statistical approaches for removing environmental/operational effects for massive data continuously collected from footbridges N2 - The implementation of continuous dynamic monitoring systems in two bridges, in Portugal, is enabled to detect the occurrence of very significant environmental and operational effects on the modal properties of these bridges, based on automated processing of massive amounts of monitoring data collected by a set of accelerometers and thermal sensors over several years. In order to remove or mitigate such environmental/operational effects with the purpose of damage detection, two different statistical methods have been adopted. One of them is the multiple linear regression by performing nonlinear correlation analysis between measured modal properties and environmental/operational variables. Another one is principal component regression based on the identification of the linear subspace within the modal properties without using measured values of environmental and operational variables. This paper presents a comparison of the performance of these two alternative approaches on the basis of continuous monitoring data acquired from two instrumented bridges and simulated damage scenarios. It is observed that different methods show similar capacity in removing environmental effects, and the multiple linear regression method is slightly more sensitive to structural damage. KW - Multiple linear KW - Damage detection KW - Environmental/operational effect KW - Modal property PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/stc.1955 SN - 1545-2255 VL - 24 IS - 8 SP - e1955-1 EP - e1955-19 PB - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd AN - OPUS4-41147 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Teng, Jun A1 - Tang, De-Hui A1 - Zhang, Xiao A1 - Hu, Wei-Hua A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Rohrmann, Rolf G. T1 - Automated modal analysis for tracking structural change during construction and operation phases N2 - The automated modal analysis (AMA) technique has attracted significant interest over the last few years, because it can track variations in modal parameters and has the potential to detect structural changes. In this paper, an improved density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) is introduced to clean the abnormal poles in a stabilization diagram. Moreover, the optimal system model order is also discussed to obtain more stable poles. A numerical Simulation and a full-scale experiment of an arch bridge are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Subsequently, the continuous dynamic monitoring system of the bridge and the proposed algorithm are implemented to track the structural changes during the construction phase. Finally, the artificial neural network (ANN) is used to remove the temperature effect on modal frequencies so that a health index can be constructed under operational conditions. KW - Automated Modal Analysis for Tracking Structural Change during Construction and Operation Phases PY - 2019 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-475116 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/4/927/pdf DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/s19040927 SN - 1424-8220 VL - 19 IS - 4 SP - 927, 1 EP - 23 PB - MDPI AG CY - Basel, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-47511 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Simon, Patrick A1 - Schneider, Ronald A1 - Viefhues, Eva A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Herrmann, Ralf A1 - Baeßler, Matthias ED - Papadrakis, M. ED - Fragiadakis, M. ED - Papadimitriou, C. T1 - Vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring of a Reinforced Concrete Beam Subjected to Varying Ambient Conditions Using Bayesian Methods N2 - Inspection and maintenance contribute significantly to the lifetime cost of bridges. There is significant potential in using information obtained through structural health monitoring to update predictive models of the condition and performance of such structures, and thus ena-ble an improved decision-making regarding inspection and maintenance activities. Within the AISTEC project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, we develop vibration-based structural health monitoring systems aimed at continuously provid-ing information on the structural condition of bridges. Environmental variations such as changing ambient temperatures can significantly influence the dynamic characteristics of bridges and thus mask the effect of structural changes and damages. It remains a challenge to account for such influences in structural health monitoring. To study the effect of ambient temperatures on the dynamic characteristics of beam structures, we monitor the vibration response of a reinforced concrete beam in the uncracked and cracked state at varying tem-peratures in a climate chamber. We postulate a set of competing parameterized probabilistic structural models, which explicitly account for the effect of varying ambient temperatures on the mechanical properties of the system. We then combine the information provided by the structural models with the information contained in the recorded vibration data to learn the parameters of the temperature-dependent structural models and infer the plausible state of the beam using Bayesian system identification and model class selection. T2 - EURODYN 2020, XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics CY - Online meeting DA - 23.11.2020 KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Bayesian methods KW - Environmental effects PY - 2020 SN - 978-618-85072-2-7 SN - 978-618-85072-0-3 SP - 1254 PB - Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research, School of Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) CY - Athens, Greece AN - OPUS4-51590 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Herrmann, Ralf A1 - Hille, Falk A1 - Said, Samir A1 - Sterthaus, Jens A1 - Müller, Karsten A1 - Quercetti, Thomas A1 - Wille, Frank A1 - Paffenholz, J.-A. A1 - Baeßler, Matthias ED - Papadrakakis, M. ED - Fragiadakis, M. ED - Papadimitriou, C. T1 - Implementing a Structural Health Monitoring system using digital models of the BAM large drop test facility in Horstwalde N2 - At the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) full scale specimens for nuclear transport and storage containers (casks) are tested for their structural integrity in a series of drop tests on the Test Site Technical Safety in Horstwalde, 50 km south of Berlin. These drop tests cause a major stress not only on the casks, but also on the steel tower structure of the test facility, itself. The load pattern makes the structure very interesting for detailed investigation. The focus of the monitoring lies on the bolted joints of the flange connections that are a typical connection for cylindrical elements if welding is technical or economical unfavorable. The definition of the monitoring takes was done by investigating the existing documents and inspection results accompanied by building an initial digital representation of the structure, consisting of two finite element (FE) models and a geometrical 3D point cloud representation. As a first step the structures behavior during static and dynamic loading was analyzed using measurement data and an updated numerical FE Model. The idea behind is to use models for a digital planning and operation/evaluation of the structural health monitoring. A static FE simulation and a dynamic FE simulation are generated, to investigate how the structure behaves under the load conditions. T2 - XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EuroDyn 2020) CY - Online meeting DA - 23.11.2020 KW - Structural Health Monitoring KW - Drop Tests KW - System Identification KW - Digital Models KW - BIM PY - 2020 UR - https://generalconferencefiles.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/eurodyn_2020_ebook_procedings_vol1.pdf SN - 978-618-85072-0-3 VL - 1 SP - 1293 EP - 1304 PB - Institute of Structural Analysis and Antiseismic Research CY - Athen AN - OPUS4-51592 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -