Corrosion Damage Identification of Towering Steel Headframe Based on Parametric Modeling and Data Fusion

The mine hoisting headframe is a typical towering truss structure, and its damage is complicated after long-term service, which affects the safety of the structure. To achieve rapid identification of corrosion damage on a towering steel headframe, the degradation law of headframe under different damage was analyzed via parametric modeling method and verified via field measurement. The results show that the influence range of element corrosion damage is localized, and a 50% corrosion rate of the bottom column will lead to a collapse risk of the headframe. After that, the single index method, of superimposed curvature mode difference and modal flexibility difference curvature, is used to identify corrosion damage of headframe column. The results indicate that the single index method is susceptible to interference in the undamaged position and leads to error identification. The improved multi-index data fusion damage identification method based on D-S evidence matrix is proposed, through which the multi-position damages in headframe structure can be identified accurately. Compared to the one-stage fusion method, the improved two-stage fusion method is more robust, with an increase of 42.9% in identification accuracy, and a reduction of 75% in misjudgment.

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