Research Article

On the Use of Singular Vectors for the Flexibility-Based Damage Detection under the Assumption of Unknown Structural Masses

Table 3

Percentage errors on estimated values (normalized to unitary masses). Mean errors are computed on the absolute values of above terms.

Mode

1+0.22+0.15+0.01−0.18−0.48
2−0.51−9.70−28.44+7.76+3.78
3+4.47−22.95+9.19+9.42+4.32
4+1.43−22.27+3.96−0.90+1.46

Mean1.6613.7710.404.572.51