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Experimental Assessment of Welded Steel Bridges Durability by Infrared Thermography

Abstract

Fatigue cracks in structural elements of metal bridges are quite frequent and difficult to predict at the design stage. To detect such cracks at the operation stage, as a rule, visual inspection of problem areas is used, and non-destructive testing methods, such as ultrasonic flaw detection and acoustic emission, are used less often. Recently, the method of revealing fatigue cracks has been actively developed, based on recording and analyzing the heat dissipated during deformation of the material. Such an approach to the determination of the most probable places for the appearance of fatigue cracks in welded structures of metal bridges by the method of infrared thermography is discussed in this article. The physical basis is the phenomenon of metal self-heating under static and cyclic loading, which arises from the development of local microplastic deformations in certain zones leading to a significant increase in the release of heat. The results of experimental laboratory studies of a sample with fatigue cracks are presented. As a sample, a bend beam was used on two supports with a pre-grown crack under cyclic loading. In the course of the experiment, the thermograms were recorded and stored at a frequency of 9 frames / sec, and thus the data were obtained of the temperature dependence of the temperature of the investigated surface versus time. To eliminate noise, we used the processing of the obtained thermograms with the help of the Mallat multiple-scale analysis mechanism and the DeBoshi-4 wavelet analysis function. To increase the accuracy of identifying areas with intense heat generation after removing noise, it is suggested to use the sum of the difference in the squares of the temperature values for each pixel of each thermogram (frame) from the complete recording of the cyclic loading process.

About the Authors

S. P. Glushkov
СГУПС
Russian Federation


L. Yu. Solovyev
СГУПС
Russian Federation


A. L. Solovyev
СГУПС
Russian Federation


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Glushkov S.P., Solovyev L.Yu., Solovyev A.L. Experimental Assessment of Welded Steel Bridges Durability by Infrared Thermography. Bulletin of Siberian State University of Transport. 2018;(2):63-71. (In Russ.)

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