IRJET- Investigation of Damage Level and Study on Load Deflection Characteristics of RCC Beam using Smart Sensor

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Investigation of Damage Level and Study on Load Deflection
Characteristics of RCC Beam Using Smart Sensor
Mahalakshmi. S1, Karthick Raj. T 2, Dr. K. Jagadeesan3
1Post Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
2Post Graduate Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
3Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Sona College of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Abstract - Civil infrastructure leads the development of
higher order structural safety during construction as well as
during service life period. The integrity of safety and
serviceability of structure can be investigated by advance
structural health monitoring technique using smart sensors.
This study has been made in identification of the damages
occurring in the structure cause micro and macro cracks.
These micro and macro cracks producingsoundandvibration,
this vibration is sensed by sensors. Using piezoelectric sensors
sounds and vibrations are sensed the internal vibrations.
Structural health monitoring and damage identificationplays
a major part to identify the behavior of structure during
loading and damage of concrete. PZT (Lead Zirconate
Titanate) sensor is used for sensing the vibration occurs
during the damage, which works by converting the effect of
cracks induced in the concrete beam in to electrical charge.
The sensed damage level of structure can be observed by the
advanced process of data acquisition system. Experimental
study was conducted on beam specimen of size 1.0 m x 0.15 m
x 0.15 m and the results were validatedbytheanalyticalstudy.
From the interpretation of results it was clearly observed that
increase in amplitude results in increasing the severity of
damage level of RCC beam. The initial micro cracks were
observed by minor fluctuation of amplitude while loading. By
observing the health of the structure under loading the safety
of the structure can be ensured by the alerting system, the
catastrophic failure can be avoided.
Key Words: Damage level, Data acquisition system, PZT,
RCC beam, vibration
1. INTRODUCTION
Infrastructure developments are more
important to play vital activitiesinthecountrydevelopment,
it’s highly focuses on the intense areas like high raised
buildings and tall structures etc., the promotion of new
technologies based on structural health monitoring and
advance research leads to implement in the complicated
structures. It’s became cumbersome to understand the
behavior of those structure under complex loading. To
overcome most of the major problems in the buildings the
multidisciplinary research are to be carried out. monitoring
of structural health using sensors is a process of providing
accurate and timely information based on the performance
of an inherent structure.
The structural health monitoring is consists of
following process, it gives digital signaling and also
communicate the signal by wireless or any other media. It
able to execute logical functions and instructions based on
behavioral sensing of structure is monitoredbysensorsand
those data were analyzed. It has greatly works to improve
over all public safety and ensuring longer life span of the
structure. As comparing to other sensors, PZT (Lead
Zirconate Titanate) based sensors are becoming more
popular because of their efficiency of monitoring the high
raised structures. The PZT sensors are used as actuator or
transducer to monitor concrete structures and to develop
corresponding health monitoring system and damage
identification strategies.
In recent years, the researches intestingtechniques
have been found to be very efficient for damage
identification incase of micro cracks and macro crack
detection and the health assessment of various structures.
X. Feng et al.[1] investigated the Post-earthquake Damage
Detection using Embedded Electro-mechanical Impedance
Sensors for Concrete Dams. N. Kaur et al [2] Integrated
Global Vibration and Low-Cost EMI TechniqueforStructural
Health Monitoring of RC Structures Using Embedded PZT
Patches. B. F. Spencer Jr et al.[3], reviewed the Industrial
applications are at the present mostly found in civil
engineering structures field and the integration of the
detection and damage identification techniques into
powerful, cost-effective and robust systems. G song, H gu et
al.[4] investigated about the Concrete structural health
monitoring using embedded piezoceramic transducers and
studied about the investigation of reinforced concrete
bridges and other large-scale civil infrastructures using
piezoceramic transducer. S Na and H K Lee [5] presented a
multi-sensingelectromechanical impedancemethodfor non-
destructive evaluation of metallicstructures. SurajN.Khante
et al [6] presented about the PZT Based Smart Aggregate for
Unified Health Monitoring of RC Structures the work Non-
Destructive Evaluation(NDE)techniqueforstructural health
monitoring by using smart materials. Constantin E.
Chaliorisa et al [7] studied about Applications of smart
piezoelectric materials in a wireless admittance monitoring
system (wiams) to structures—tests in RC elements. Jinlei
Zhao et al [8] investigated about the smart aggregate piezo
ceramic patch combinationforhealthmonitoringofconcrete
structure the surface mounted piezoceramic patch

combination is an effective tool for Monitoring health of
concrete structures from the amplitudes of the recorded
wave signals. P.Frojd et al., [9] studied about the Amplitude
and phase measurement of continuous diffuse fields for
structural health monitoring of concrete structures. Shi Yan
et al., [10] investigated the development and application ofa
Structural Health Monitoring System Based on Wireless
Smart Aggregates.
Aging, deterioration and extreme events such as
natural and man-made disaster like earthquake, sudden
blasting can take a toll on high raise buildings.Thestructural
health monitoring using smart sensors reduces the regular
monitoring and it gives the relevant accurate and timely
information through programming. The experimental study
has been carried out on RCC beam specimen of size 1.0 m x
0.15 m x 0.15 m and the results were validated by the
analytical study. Piezoelectric sensor is used for sensing the
vibration occurs during the damage that works by
converting the effect in to electrical charge. The sensed
damage level of structure can be observed by the advanced
process of data acquisition system.
2. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
2.1 Specimen casting
The Reinforced Cement Concrete of beam size 1000mmx
150mm x 150mm was cast with the mix ratio ofM25gradeof
concrete. The water-cement-sand-aggregate weight ratio of
the concrete mix was 0.45 : 1 : 1.46 : 2.82. To avoid brittle
failure of the concrete beam during the two-point loading
test, two numbers of longitudinal steel bars of 10mm
diameter were placed at the tension zone and two numbers
of longitudinal bars were placedatthecompressionzoneand
the stirrups of size 8mm diameter were used and 25mm
cover blocks provided for the specimen.
2.2 Circuit setup
Arduino is open software which showstheplatform
used for the building electronic projects it consist of both
physical programmable circuit board. It is referred as a
micro controller and a piece of software that runs on the
computer used to write and upload the computer coding to
the physical board. The PZT was programmedusingarduino
software and the program was uploaded to the micro
processor. The arduino UNO was powered from a USB cable
from the computer. The power fluctuation in the PZT was
controlled by using 1 mega ohm resistor. Theresistor resists
the flow of excess power supply. Figure 1 showsthesetupof
arduino board and the pins are connected in the bread
board.
Fig -1: Circuit setup
2.3 Digital data acquisition system (DDA)
The PZT sensors placed at the surface of the Reinforced
Cement Concrete specimen. The process the signal receiving
from the structure by applying the mechanical energy was
converting the results into electrical energy in terms of
digital numerical values. The receivedsignal fromthesensor
is due to the vibration of the structure. The digital values
result in terms of amplitude in voltage and time in seconds.
Figure 2 shows the process of energy conversion using
advanced digital data analysis technique.
Fig -2: Digital data acquisition system
3. TESTING PROCEDURE
3.1 Numerical Analysis
The Numerical analysis of the RCC beam was done
to find the critical points. After knowing the critical points,
the sensors were placed at the critical points equal to the
same distance on both sides of the RCC beam. This setup is
helpful to monitor the micro and macro cracks even at the
real time structures. In future this will be useful to locatethe
crack at high rise buildings. Figure 3 shows the Numerical
analysis of the beam.
Fig -3: Numerical Analysis of RCC beam

3.2. Laboratory set up
Simply supported RCC beam weresubjectedtopurebending
by application of two point loading at L third distance. One
end of the beam was treated as hinged and other was roller,
so the beam was simply supported. Test is carried out in
UTM loading capacity of 2000 kN. Loading arrangements
was made for two point loading, the load were appliedatthe
distance of 333.33mm i.e. L/3 distance on either side of the
mid span of the beam. The load has been monitored through
a high accuracy set up, in this case, mid span deflection was
measured using dial gauges of least count 0.01mm. Figure 4
shows the testing set up for two point loading.
Fig -4: Two point loading set up with sensors
4. RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS
The PZT sensor is used to detect the damage of the
structure like micro and macro cracks in this experiment.
The incipient cracks can be identified by monitoring. The
output of the sensor was obtained by Arduino board as a
digital value. while applying load the minor cracks were
identified with respect to plotting a graph between time in
micro seconds and Amplitude in voltage. The graph is
plotted directly from the obtained results by taking
amplitude in y axis and time in x axis. The results can be
taken either way by giving alerting system and also can take
digital values. The live monitoring can be possible with the
help of Arduino code and to form alerting system with few
micro controllers. The incipient crack in concrete matrix
was immaculately predicted by the voltage reading which
was obtained by sensor and read as digital value by Arduino
programming. Table 1 shows thattimeinminuteswhich was
converted from micro seconds the values directly obtained
through program coding. This value was obtaining whilethe
mechanical energy generate electrical energy. S1, S2, S3, S4
are the PZT1, PZT2, PZT3, PZT4 respectivelywhichplaced at
the two faces of RCC beam. The load value in kN was
obtained from UTM machineforcomparingthedamagelevel
with load. This will be helpful for the future references.
Table -1: Damage level of the beam
Time in
Minutes
Load
(kN)
S1 S2 S3 S4
0 0 0 0 0 0
1 7.2 0 0 0 0
2 24.65 0.06 0 0 0.01
3 38.45 0.05 0.07 0 0
4 54 0 0.07 0 0
5 74.75 0 0 0.05 0
6 80 0 0 0 0
Chart 1 show that the Level of Damage in Reinforced
Cement Concrete beams with respect to time andamplitude.
The incipient crack occur at the amplitude of 0.01V at 24.65
kN was recorded at PZT4 i.e. S4 sensor. Then the developing
crack was monitored and recorded, by the respective
sensors simultaneously using micro processor. The
maximum amplitude recorded in S2 at 0.07 V it shows that
the maximum crack recorded at the second sensor. In real
time monitoring, it depends upon the critical section where
we can place the sensors. . From the graph it shows that
usage of PZT can be used topredictthecompressivestrength
and the damage level. Once the peak amplitude is achieved
the voltage drops shows the poor strength of concrete
against load.
Chart -1: Damage level of RCC beam

5. CONCLUSION
.
It is concluded that from the experimental work that
continuous health monitoring of structure is possible, with
proposed cost effective technique. It carried out that the
Damage level can be proposed economically by using PZT
sensor. Health monitoring of the concrete structure is a
simplest task to detect incipient damages using Arduino
programmed coding. This method can be implementinhigh
rise buildings, in additional the alert indication can also be
possible while increase in damage level of the structure. It
also denotes the predicted location of crack at a high rise
building, based on the sensor which is fixed in RCC-beam.
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