A Crack Identification Method For Beam Type Structures Subject To Moving Vehicle Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Authors : Hakan GÖKDAĞ

Pages : 437-448

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Publication Date : 2013-10-02

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :In this work a crack identification method for beam type structures under moving vehicle is proposed. The basic of the method is to formulate damage detection as an inverse problem, and solve for damage locations and extents. To this end, an objective function is defined based on the difference of damaged beam dynamic response and the response calculated by the mathematical model of the beam. The optimization problem is solved through a popular evolutionary algorithm, i.e. the particle swarm optimization insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(PSO); with constriction factor, to obtain crack locations and depths. From the numerical simulations it was observed that cracks with depth ratio of 0.1 can be identified with reasonable error by the present method in spite of noise interference and distortive effect of road surface roughness.   Key Words : Cracked beam, damage detection, particle swarm optimization, moving vehicle
Keywords : Cracked beam, damage detection, particle swarm optimization, moving vehicle