Damage localization and quantification constitute different aspects of structural damage diagnosis, which are particular interest in the Structural Health Monitoring field. Therein, a classical solution is model updating, where parameters finite element possibly damaged structure optimized to match with corresponding estimated from its vibration responses. To avoid ill-posedness updating proble...

Theoretical methods from statistical physics can be used in optimization problems in computer science and mathematics, as they often be defined by an energy-function which needs to minimized to find the optimal solution. These methods can be used to gain information about statistical properties of these systems, and can aid in finding the lowest energy configuration (i.e. optimization). In addi...

the multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (mewma) control chart is one of the best statistical control chart that are usually used to detect simultaneous small deviations on the mean of more than one cross-correlated quality characteristics. the economic design of mewma control charts involves solving a combinatorial optimization model that is composed of a nonlinear cost function ...