The invention belongs to the technical field of structural damage monitoring, and particularly relates to a structural dynamic
tomography and damage monitoring method using self-excitation
waves, which comprises the following steps: S1, carrying out spatial
discretization processing on a monitored object, and establishing a three-dimensional discrete model; arranging a plurality of sensors on a monitoring object; recording the space coordinates of each sensor; s2, applying external excitation to a known position, and inverting an initial
wave velocity field in the monitoring object; s3, extracting self-excitation
waves of the monitored object received by each sensor; s4, identifying the
arrival time of each self-excitation wave
signal on each sensor; the space coordinates of the wave source of each excitation wave
signal are calculated through inversion; s5, synchronously updating the
wave velocity field based on the space coordinates of the wave sources of the respective excitation
waves, and
processing to obtain a damage result of the monitored object; and S6, performing corresponding
processing based on a damage result. According to the method, dynamic
tomography and real-time monitoring of the damage position, range and evolution process can be realized.