Damage Evaluation of Bridge Hanger Based on Bayesian Inference: Analytical Model. (28th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ding, Yang; Dong, Jing-liang; Yang, Tong-lin; Wang, Zhong-ping; Zhou, Shuang-xi; Wei, Yong-qi; She, An-ming
• Other Names: Xin Haohui Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: Advances in materials science and engineering. Volume 2021(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-05-28
• Subjects: Materials science -- Periodicals; Materials science; Periodicals; 620.11
• DOI: 10.1155/2021/9947727
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-8434

Abstract

Abstract : With the increase of the long-span bridge, the damage of the long-span bridge hanger has attracted more and more attention. Nowadays, the probability statistics method based on Bayes' theorem is widely used for evaluating the damage of bridge, that is, Bayesian inference. In this study, the damage evaluation model of bridge hanger is established based on Bayesian inference. For the damage evaluation model, the analytical expressions for calculating the weights by finite mixture (FM) method are derived. In order to solve the complex analytical expressions in damage evaluation model, the Metropolis-Hastings (MH) sampling of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method was used. Three case studies are adopted to demonstrate the effect of the initial value and the applicability of the proposed model. The result suggests that the proposed model can evaluate the damage of the bridge hanger.