OPERATIONAL MODAL ANALYSIS OF MONTESE VIADUCT: FINITE ELEMENT MODEL UPDATING AND COMPARISON WITH STATIC LOAD TEST.
Operational Modal Analysis; Non-destructive rehearsal; Model Calibration; Static Load Test; Bridge dynamic analysis.
Operational Modal Analysis is a methodology widely used in order to identify structural modal parameters without interrupting its use. In civil structures, this methodology is used along with a finite element model, which allows structural health monitoring, and damage detection besides of determination of how existent pathology affects structural performance.
In the present work, the Montese Avenue’s viaduct Operational modal analysis is presented. Acceleration was measured in 16 points over superstructure in three orthogonal directions in a 50Hz sampling rate resulting in a 40 hours of measured data. It was employed SSI-COV algorithm in order to identify structure’s natural frequencies. A finite element model of the structure was developed to be calibrated with the frequencies resultants of the modal analysis. This model is going to be tested with a simulation of a static load test, which was performed in the viaduct before traffic liberation.
Both models calibration’s was successfully done. Errors in frequencies are small for several modes, but some modes presented frequencies errors above 10%. Despite static load test simulation results diverge from structural response, we considered model behavior improvement satisfactory due to input data quality.