Dynamic displacement plays an essential role in structural health monitoring. To overcome the shortcomings of displacement measured directly, such as installation difficulty of monitoring devices, this paper proposes a smart reconstruction method, which can realize real-time intelligent online reconstruction of structural displacement. Unlike the existing approaches, the proposed algorithm combines the improved mode superposition methods that is suitable for complex beam structures with the Kalman filtering approach using acceleration and strain data. The effectiveness of the proposed multi-rate data fusion method for dynamic displacement reconstruction is demonstrated by both numerical simulation and model vibration experiment. Parametric analysis shows that the reconstruction error is only 5% when the noise signal to noise ratio is 5 dB, illustrating that the proposed algorithm has excellent anti-noise performance. The results also indicate that both the high-frequency and low-frequency components of the dynamic displacements can be accurately reconstructed through the proposed method, which has good robustness.
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