Health status diagnosis of the bridges based on multi-fractal de-trend fluctuation analysis

Abstract

More and more attention has been paid to the research on bridge structure health monitoring and state analysis technology, especially the theory and technology of time series analysis based on bridge deflection information. In this paper, multi-fractal de-trend analysis (MF-DFA) is used to analysis the deflection information of bridges. The deformation characteristic parameters can be obtained by the multi-fractal de-trend fluctuation method, which can effectively identify the deformation degree of bridges. The analysis result shows that the multi-fractal de-trend fluctuation analysis method provides the theoretical basis and implementation approach for the health monitoring of the bridge.

Keywords

• deflection signal
• multi-fractal
• de-trend analysis
• health monitoring of bridge