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Under long term wind load, the bolt looseness occurring at the joints of tower legs will reduce the wind-resistant capability, increasing the wind-induced displacement responses and affecting the serviceability of the high-rise steel tower. In order to detect the bolt looseness locations of the flange assembling joints of leg members in high-rise steel tubular tower structures, a new bolt loosening localization at flange joints method using wind-induced response for high-rise tower was presented in this paper. Wind-induced vertical strain response root variance of flange assembling joint on the tower vertical bar is defined as the identification parameter of the bolt looseness damage. Then, the normalized wind-induced vertical strain response root variance is defined as the damage index of bolt loose-ness damage, thereby eliminating the impact of wind loads of different magnitudes on damage identification. When the damage index exceeds the threshold, it can be considered that the bolt looseness damage occurs in flange assembling joint, thereby to realize the damage identification. The results both numerical analyses of a practical transmission tower and scaled model wind tunnel experiment of a steel tubular tower show that the proposed method is efficient and noise immunity on the bolt looseness location detection for high-rise tower.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51308430), the Hubei Key Laboratory of Roadway Bridge and Structure Engineering (Wuhan University of Technology) (No.DQJJ201907) and the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No.2020CFB524).
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Ji, B., Xiong, Q., Xing, P. et al. Bolt Loosening Localization at Flange Joints Using Wind-Induced Response for High-Rise Tower. Int J Steel Struct 21, 1790–1803 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13296-021-00535-5
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