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1.1. GENERAL SHM PARADIGM<br />
Damage identification in accordance with an SHM paradigm involves<br />
progressive stages. According to Sohn at al. [3] and Worden and Dulieu-Barton<br />
[4], this sequential process includes operational evaluation, data acquisition,<br />
signal processing, feature extraction and statistical pattern processing (Fig. 1.1).<br />
Fig. 1.1 - Scheme of SHM based damage identification process.<br />
The operational evaluation entails the appraisal of economic and life safety<br />
motives for the SHM system, definition of damage within the structure,<br />
determination of the operational and environmental conditions under which the<br />
structure is subjected and how this may affect the ability for data acquisition,<br />
which involves the collection of the dynamic response measurements in the<br />
system.<br />
Signal processing, which includes data cleansing, denoising and data<br />
transformation, is paramount in the damage identification procedure. Common<br />
methods of data cleansing and de-noising include digital or analogical filters,<br />
signal averaging and more recently, the use of discrete wavelet transform and of<br />
multi-dimensional Fourier transforms.