This paper presents a model-based monitoring framework for the detection of fatigue-related crack damages in plate-type structures commonly seen in aluminum ship hulls. The monitoring framework involves vibration-based damage detection methodologies and finite element modeling of continuum plate structures. A Bayesian-based damage detection approach is adopted for locating probable damage areas...

The important advances achieved in the modal identification, sensors and structural monitoring of bridges have motivated the bridge engineering community to develop damage detection methods based on vibration monitoring. Some of these methods have already been demonstrated under certain conditions in bridges with deliberate damage (Farrar et al., 1998). However, the performance of these methods...

To study the types of mechanical damage for castor seeds and their effects on germination, image processing method was applied to detect affecting germination. Two typical varieties were selected test. The type taken as factor, germination rate vigor index indicators one-way analysis variance. analyzed. Different algorithms extract features cracks seed shell missing, corresponding defect parame...

In most real-world monitoring scenarios, the lack of measurements from damaged conditions requires application unsupervised approaches, mainly ones based on modal features estimated raw vibration data through traditional system identification methods. Although numerous successful applications using parameters have been reported, they demonstrated to be insufficient estimate a robust set damage-...

This study developed an integrated global-local approach for locating damage on building structures. A damage detection approach with a novel embedded frequency response function damage index (NEFDI) was proposed and embedded in the Imote2.NET-based wireless structural health monitoring (SHM) system to locate global damage. Local damage is then identified using an electromechanical impedance- (...

In this study, an improved GA-based damage detection algorithm using a set of combined modal features that include natural frequency, mode shape, and modal strain energy is proposed. In order to achieve the objective, the following approaches are implemented. Firstly, a new GA-based damage detection algorithm is formulated for beam-type structures. A schematic of the GA-based damage detection a...