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Validation of Model Order Assumption and Noise Reduction Method for the Impact Resonance Testing of Asphalt Concrete

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The impact resonance test is a free vibration-based nondestructive test method that has been increasingly used in evaluation and characterization of asphalt concrete for the past two decades. The rheological modeling of the impact resonance test is conceptualized by a linear viscous damping mechanism having single degree of freedom whose equation of the motion is assumed to be second order. In this study, the second order equation of motion assumption in the modeling of the impact resonance test response was evaluated for asphalt concrete testing. A set of asphalt concrete specimens was tested with the impact resonance test, and the obtained signals at a range of temperatures were evaluated by means of the Hankel matrix method. The results showed that the assumption is violated for asphalt concrete testing especially at high temperatures, mainly due to the presence of noise in the obtained response. However, the Hankel method was employed to filter out the noise. It was seen that the assumption could be employed for asphalt concrete at a range of temperatures including high temperatures, provided that the filtering is performed on the obtained signal. The results also showed that the employed filtering procedure produced improvements for the impact resonance test material dependent responses, resonant frequency and especially damping ratio calculations.

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Acknowledgements

This study was partially supported by Northeast Center for Excellence in Pavement Technology (NECEPT) of Penn State University and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant P50 DA039838, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants CNS-1329422 and ECCS-1201973, and the Republic of Singapore National Research Foundation through a grant to the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) for the Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency and Sustainability in the Tropics (SinBerBEST) Program. The work described is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of NECEPT, NIH, and NSF.

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Ilker Boz

  2. The School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Korkut Bekiroglu

  3. Northeast Center for Excellence in Pavement Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Mansour Solaimanian

  4. Larson Transportation Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Pezhouhan Tavassoti-Kheiry

  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and The Methodology Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 16802, USA

    Constantino Lagoa

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Boz, I., Bekiroglu, K., Solaimanian, M. et al. Validation of Model Order Assumption and Noise Reduction Method for the Impact Resonance Testing of Asphalt Concrete. J Nondestruct Eval 36, 58 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10921-017-0436-2

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