At the time of designing structures up to date, the density and magnitude of the load have
increased, and the requirements for regulation have also become more stringent. To ensure …

Structural damage identification based on finite element (FE) model updating has been a
research direction of increasing interest over the last decade in the mechanical, civil …

Due to uncertainties associated with material properties, structural geometry, boundary
conditions, and connectivity of structural parts as well as inherent simplifying assumptions in …

The structural health monitoring (SHM) approach plays a key role not only in structural
engineering but also in other various engineering disciplines by evaluating the safety and …

Optimization is an essential tool to minimize or maximize functions, obtaining optimal results
on costs, mass, energy, gains, among others. Actual problems may be multimodal …

Optimization‐based methods are increasingly being implemented for structural damage
detection problems through the minimization of the objective functions based on vibration …

In this paper, a newly developed multi-agent meta-heuristic method, named Cyclical
Parthenogenesis Algorithm (CPA), is incorporated into a guided modal strain energy based …

In this paper a new guided structural damage identification approach is presented in order to
localize and quantify multiple damage cases in different structural systems. The change in …

This paper is aimed at presenting a novel and effective method to detect and estimate
structural damage by introducing an efficient objective function which is based on Modal …

Finite element modelling is performed to numerically predict the behaviour of civil
engineering structures. Due to the different assumptions adopted during the modelling …