In this study, vibrational characteristics of upright breakwater under wave condition is numerically analyzed. Firstly, finite element model of upright breakwater which composed by structure-foundation system is established. Dynamic behavior of the upright breakwater’s structure-foundation system is analyzed. Secondly, numerical model for wave field is created. Wave pressure is extracted to apply for the upright breakwater model as the excitation force. Both of design wave and small wave are considered. Thirdly, the vibrational responses are extracted from the upright breakwater model and there model parameters are extracted. Finally, the effect of the wave condition on vibration characteristics of upright breakwater is examined.

The motivation of this paper is to identify the variation of stress filed in multi-strand tendon anchorage system using electromechanical impedance measurement. To achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, stress variation in multi-strand anchorage system due to strand breakage is analyzed to determine the location of impedance acquisition. Secondly, a piezoelectric-based interface technique is designed to localize the damage strand. Lastly, the conceptual design of the PZT-interface is preliminarily verified by an experimental test. Impedance signatures obtained from PZT-interface are quantified by using RMSD index (root-mean-square-deviation). The result shows that the PZT-interface technique is promisingly to identify damage strands.