SUMMARY Health monitoring of structural systems for the detection of damage is a critical practice in determining their safety and service life. A large amount of research has been done in applying damage detection analysis to linear models of structures. Although many real structures exhibit nonlinear behavior prior to or as a result of damage, there are currently few tools to apply damage det...

this paper presents new sensitivity-based methods for detection of structural damage using incomplete noisy modal data. these methods are based on the first-order derivative of modal parameters. changes of natural frequency do not usually provide spatial information on the structural damage. they are also not sensitive to the local damage. in this paper, a new sensitivity function is proposed u...

Modern Heuristics in Structural Damage Detection Using Frequency Response Functions. (August 2003) Tamás Róbert Liszkai, M.S., University of Miskolc Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Anne M. Raich This research addresses the problem of structural damage detection using linear vibration information contained in frequency response functions. The structural damage identification method is stated as...

A damage detection method is presented for the identification and quantification of damage. The proposed method uses finite element method to extract modal parameters of cracked and intact cantilever beam. The damage is simulated by fracture mechanics concept by introducing cracked elements at different locations with predetermined magnitude of depth. The curvature response function, function o...