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Optimal sensor placement for enhancing sensitivity to change in stiffness for structural health monitoring

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This paper focuses on optimal sensor placement for structural health monitoring (SHM), in which the goal is to find an optimal configuration of sensors that will best predict structural damage. The problem is formulated as a bound constrained mixed variable programming (MVP) problem, in which the discrete variables are categorical; i.e., they may only take on values from a pre-defined list. The problem is particularly challenging because the objective function is computationally expensive to evaluate and first-order derivatives may not be available. The problem is solved numerically using the generalized mixed variable pattern search (MVPS) algorithm. Some new theoretical convergence results are proved, and numerical results are presented, which show the potential of our approach.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Ohio University, Morton 321, Athens, OH, 45701, USA

    Josh M. Beal

  2. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, 56 Engineering Building, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    Amit Shukla

  3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Miami University, 123 Bachelor Hall, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    Olga A. Brezhneva

  4. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2950 Hobson Way, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433, USA

    Mark A. Abramson

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Beal, J.M., Shukla, A., Brezhneva, O.A. et al. Optimal sensor placement for enhancing sensitivity to change in stiffness for structural health monitoring. Optim Eng 9, 119–142 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11081-007-9023-1

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