In  this  paper,  a  method  is  presented  for  damage  detection  of  bridges  using  the  Enhanced Colliding Bodies Optimization (ECBO)  utilizing time-domain responses. The finite element modeling of the structure is based on  the equation of motion under the moving load, and the flexural stiffness of the structure is determined by the acceleration responses obtained via sensors placed in d...

A newly derived damage location algorithm is proposed to predict location of damage in offshore structures using changes in mode shapes from modal testing. This method decomposes elemental modal strain energy into two parts, and defines two damage indicators: axial damage indicator and transverse damage indicator. Analyzing the joint information of the two damage indicators can localize damage ...

Although traditional signal-based structural health monitoring algorithms have been successfully employed for small structures, their application for large and complex bridges has been challenging due to non-stationary signal characteristics with a high level of noise. In this paper, a promising damage detection algorithm is proposed by incorporation of adaptive signal processing and Artificial...

Let V be a finite configuration of voter ideal points in the Euclidean plane. For given > 0 a point x ∈ < is in the -core if for all y 6= x, ||v−x|| ≤ ||v− y||+ for a simple majority (at least |V |/2) of voters v ∈ V . Let (x) denote the the least for which x is in the -core. Thus (x) = 0 if and only if x is a core point. The least for which the -core is nonempty is denoted ∗. This paper provid...

automatic road extraction from aerial images can be very helpful in traffic control and vehicle guidance systems. most of the road detection approaches are based on image segmentation algorithms. color-based segmentation is very sensitive to light changes and consequently the change of weather condition affects the recognition rate of road detection systems. in order to reduce the light change ...

One of the difficulties of the vibration-based damage identification methods is the nonuniqueness of the results of damage identification. The different damage locations and severity may cause the identical response signal, which is even more severe for detection of the multiple damage. This paper proposes a new strategy for damage detection to avoid this nonuniqueness. This strategy firstly de...

the first integral method is an efficient method for obtaining exact solutions of some nonlinear partial differential equations. this method can be applied to non integrable equations as well as to integrable ones. in this paper, the first integral method is used to construct exact solutions of the 2d ginzburg-landau equation.