Structural damage assessment using FRF employing particle swarm optimization

This paper evaluates the use of Frequency Response Function (FRF) with the help of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique, for structural damage detection and quantification. The robustness and efficiency of the above method has been established after comparing results between the two methods namely Genetic Algorithm (GA), and PSO, considering natural frequencies as response quantities. The performance of these methods has been evaluated for beam and plane frame structures with various damage scenarios. FRF based damage detection technique is employed subsequently along with PSO. It is observed that the use of FRF as response of damaged structure has led to better accuracy, since it contains data related to mode shape in addition to natural frequencies. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.