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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.

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