SUMMARY Health monitoring of structural systems for the detection of damage is a critical practice in determining their safety and service life. A large amount of research has been done in applying damage detection analysis to linear models of structures. Although many real structures exhibit nonlinear behavior prior to or as a result of damage, there are currently few tools to apply damage det...

This paper, which is a part of an ongoing research study, describes a Genetic Algorithm-based approach towards a global damage identification framework for the continuous/periodic monitoring of civil structures. In order to localise and estimate the severity of damage regions, a one stage model-based Bayesian probabilistic damage detection approach is proposed. The method is based on response p...

Exact computation is an important paradigm for the implementation of geometric algorithms. In this paper, we consider for the first time the practically important problem of collision detection under this aspect. The task is to decide whether a polyhedral object can perform a prescribed sequence of translations and rotations in the presence of stationary polyhedral obstacles. We present an exac...

Structural damage detection using measured response data has emerged as a new research area in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering communities in recent years. In this paper, a universal fast algorithm is presented for sensitivity-based structural damage detection, which can quickly improve the calculation accuracy of the existing sensitivity-based technique without any high-order sens...