Research Article

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

Table 5

Flexibility matrix obtained by using unitary-mass-normalized identified modal vectors (from ERA-based procedure) and relative errors.

Elements of the flexibility matrix

0.23290.16960.11450.0650
0.16960.17030.11360.0646
0.11450.11360.11550.0644
0.06500.06460.06440.0663

0.000.080.540.66
0.080.50−0.250.02
0.54−0.251.39−0.25
0.660.02−0.252.61