Research Article

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

Table 9

Damage indices estimated by SVD-based procedure in case of complete (on the left) and partial identification (on the right, by using only the first vector) on the shear-type frame.

Damage patternStory
1234

D1−2.59+0.05−0.09−0.26
D2−0.50−3.61−0.39−0.25
D3−3.38−2.25−0.46−0.21
D4−3.71−3.54−6.51−0.42

D1−2.23+0.73+0.99+1.01
D2−0.65−3.62−0.03−0.01
D3−2.73−1.57+0.93+0.85
D4−2.33−2.21−5.65+1.23