Published: Građevinar 68 (2016) 7
Paper type: Preliminary report
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Testing heuristic optimisation methods for vibration-based detection of damage
Abstract
Considerable efforts have been made in recent years for the development of non-destructive techniques for detection of structural damage based on changes of dynamic parameters of structures. The tests are made on a model of a simple beam with cantilevers. Two heuristic optimisation techniques are used in the proposed procedure for detecting the location and level of damage: taboo search and simulated annealing. The results show that both proposes procedures, with appropriate target functions and weight factors, are highly efficient for detecting the location and level of damage.
Keywordsdamage detection, taboo search, simulated annealing, modal parameters, heuristic optimization