Practical 5

Model updating

OE44055

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures

Identify the Youngs modulus of the beam by
minimizing the difference between the measured
(Practical 4) and calculated modal properties

Download the m-files for Practical 4 from Blackboard.

Copy the following (completed) files from Practical 4 to the
location where you saved the files for todays practical:
model.m
solve.m
system_id.m
Run system_id.m.
Run eigenvectors.m.
Follow the instructions in the handout to complete the
practical.

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures

Theory

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures

Example: Model updating for
damage assessment
Model updating: find the parameters M that minimize the
least squares prediction error

2
M = arg min M T M = arg min 12 M
M DM M DM

For the current example:

4 4
( M
)2
M 2

M = arg min +
M DM
2 2

=1 =1

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures

Example: Model updating for
damage assessment

Cost function
4 4
( M )2 M 2

M = arg min +
M DM =1 2
2

=1

Solution the optimization problem:

Brute force only low-dimensional problems
expensive!
Local gradient-based iterative methods

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures

Example: Model updating for
damage assessment
Iterative gradient-based optimization for a two-dimensional problem:

OE44055 Load Identification and Monitoring of Structures