Potential of Two Metaheuristic Optimization Tools for Damage Localization in Civil Structures
Publication: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 30, Issue 2
Abstract
In structural health monitoring, the presence of damage is detected and localized by outlining the differences between the initial state and current behavior of a given structure. The problem is often formulated as an optimization problem. In this paper, a highly nonlinear objective function that minimizes the discrepancies between the analytical and experimental features of a structure is introduced. Within a finite-element discretization, some stiffness parameters are chosen as reference variables. Two metaheuristic tools, the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm and the firefly algorithm (FA), are applied to proceed the iterations toward the global minima of the objective function. By comparing the identified and analytical stiffness matrices, the damage detection and localization are performed. These methods are applied to a steel structure. The efficiency of the two tools is compared.
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Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Volume 30 • Issue 2 • March 2017
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Received: Mar 30, 2015
Accepted: May 26, 2016
Published online: Jul 25, 2016
Discussion open until: Dec 25, 2016
Published in print: Mar 1, 2017
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