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Ant lion optimisation algorithm for structural damage detection using vibration data

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Structural damage assessment is crucial for structural health monitoring to evaluate the safety and residual service life of the structure. To solve the structural damage detection problem, various optimisation techniques have been in use. However, they fail to identify damage and are prone to converge to local optima for improper tuning of algorithm-specific parameters, which are problem specific. In this study, the recently proposed ant lion optimiser, which is a population-based search algorithm, mimicked the hunting behaviour of antlions, was used for assessing structural damage. The objective function for damage detection was based on vibration data, such as natural frequencies and mode shapes. The effectiveness of the proposed technique was evaluated against several benchmark problems with different damage settings. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm required fewer parameters than other metaheuristic algorithms to identify the location and extent of damage.

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Acknowledgements

This research work was financially supported by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) IIT Kharagpur cell. The authors are grateful to ISRO cell for their financial support for carrying out the research work at the Departments of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur.

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    Swarup Kumar Barman & Dipak Kumar Maiti

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Mishra, M., Barman, S.K., Maity, D. et al. Ant lion optimisation algorithm for structural damage detection using vibration data. J Civil Struct Health Monit 9, 117–136 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13349-018-0318-z

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