Directional wavelet modal curvature method for damage detection in plates

Abstract Vibration-based damage detection using the 2D modal curvature has become a research focus. However, the traditional methods based on modal curvature lack the sensitivity to direction of the damage. To address this problem, a directional 2D Morlet wavelet modal curvature is proposed in this paper. The directional wavelet modal curvatures show the following merits: robust to noise interference and sensitive to direction of damage. By the numerical simulation, the efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated in the plate-like structure.