An Entropy Approach for Characterization and Assessment of Fatigue Damage Accumulation in Q235 Steel Based on Acoustic Emission Testing

摘要

An understanding of damage accumulation in structural steel materials is of vital importance to the fatigue community in both academia and industry. A novel entropy-based approach is introduced to characterize and assess the fatigue damage accumulation in Q235 steel material. The presented technique is based on acoustic emission (AE) testing taking account into the valuable signal parameters extracted from the captured AE signals in the combination of static and dynamic cyclic loading procedures. Data from AE parameters are used as inputs for a multicomponent variate D_A, which provides efficient statistical description of the fatigue damage state, enabling an assessment by the entropy method. The key aspects of this investigation include (1) the AE test with a new experimental paradigm fusing static and dynamic cyclic loading procedures, (2) the establishment of a multicomponent variate D_A-based AE data, and (3) the assessment of fatigue damage accumulation using entropy-based method. These results open perspectives for predicting fatigue life and real-time damage recognition in Q235 steel material.