Subproject C1

Therefore, the methodology developed within the SFB 805 including the uncertainty model provides the basis for a structured and consistent description of uncertainty in load-monitoring. The functional fitness of the proposed load-monitoring with uncertainty was tested by estimating a single harmonic lateral load and a static axial load applied on a simple beam-column system in numerical and experimental simulations. The influence of uncertainty in the mathematical model and the measurement signals on the estimated load was shown in numerical as well as in experimental simulations and was presented in a structured and consistent way by the use of the process model developed in the SFB. With that, it was possible to vividly represent the propagation of stochastic deviations in the measurement signals and systematic deviations in the parameters of the mathematical model. However, a detailed analysis of the cause-and-effect-relationship e.g. the effect of nonlinearities, reduced models etc. on the estimated loads could not be performed. These relations are, among others, scopes of investigation in the new subproject C5.

With the ended subproject C1, first basics to analyze uncertainty in a load-monitoring were developed. It was possible to represent and evaluate uncertainty within several processes in load-monitoring by the uncertainty model and the process model proposed in the SFB. The scientific perception in load-monitoring with uncertainty in combination with the studies of structure-propertie-interaction between passive and active components in the subproject C3 build a basis for the new subproject C7. Results of the subprojects C1 and C3 help to realize new methods of structural health control in Subproject C7.