Research Article

Damage Detection of Bridges Using Vibration Data by Adjoint Variable Method

Table 1

Damage scenarios for multispan bridge.

Damage scenarioDamage typeDamage locationReduction in elastic modulusNoise

M1-1Single235%Nil
M1-2Multi8, 13, and 2911%, 4%, and 7%Nil
M1-3Multi3, 7, 19, 25, and 2812%, 6%, 5%, 2%, and 18%Nil
M1-4RandomAll elementsRandom damage in all elements with an average of 5%Nil
M1-5RandomAll elementsRandom damage in all elements with an average of 15%Nil
M1-6Estimation of undamaged stateAll elements5% reduction in all elementsNil