1512. Detecting multiple small-sized damage in beam-type structures by teager energy of modal curvature shape

Detection of multiple damage using modal curvature has become a research focus of great significance in recent years. Nevertheless, a noticeable deficiency of modal curvature is its inadequacy in identifying small-sized damage, which usually results in damage signatures being obscured by the global fluctuation trend of modal curvature. To address this deficiency, this study develops a damage feature of Teager energy of modal curvature shape to identify multiple small-sized damage against the global fluctuation trend of the modal curvature. The advantage of this damage feature over the traditional modal curvature in small-sized damage characterization is first verified in analytical cases of cracked beams with various types of boundary condition, and further validated in a cracked carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composite beam with the mode shapes acquired using a scanning laser vibrometer.