this paper presents the application of three main artificial neural networks (anns) in damage detection of steel bridges. this method has the ability to indicate damage in structural elements due to a localized change of stiffness called damage zone. the changes in structural response is used to identify the states of structural damage. to circumvent the difficulty arising from the non-linear n...

this paper presents the application of three main artificial neural networks (anns) in damage detection of steel bridges. this method has the ability to indicate damage in structural elements due to a localized change of stiffness called damage zone. the changes in structural response is used to identify the states of structural damage. to circumvent the difficulty arising from the non-linear n...

Abstract System identification as a field has been around since the 1950s with roots from statistical theory. A substantial body of concepts, theory, algorithms and experience developed then. Indeed, there is very extensive literature on subject, many text books, like [5, 8, 12]. Some main points this “classical” are summarized in chapter, just pointing to basic structure problem area. The cent...