Structural health monitoring of a plate excited by ambient load by wavelet transform
Use of environmental loads to perform continuous Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
allows controlling the structural integrity in operative conditions, with considerable
timesaving and safety benefits. Aim of this paper is the identification of the damage on a plate
excited by potential vortices using the Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). The numerical
model of the load is based on the relationship between the induced vortex pressure and a
rigid wall. The numerical model of the damaged plate is determined by a Finite Element (FE)