A method to optimize sensor locations based on an improved particle swarm optimization(PSO)is presented to reasonably arrange sensors in the structural health monitoring and to effectively identify the structural damage. Firstly
a fitness function is constructed as the optimization criterion by minimizing the maximum off-diagonal element of the MAC matrix. Then
an improved PSO is used to find the optimal location of sensors. Secondly
a limited amount of incomplete measured modal data for the structure is expanded into complete modal data by using the dynamic expansion method. Then
a damage identification method is employed to identify the location and the extent of structural damage based on the complete modal data. Finally
a numerical example of the planar truss structure is taken to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The simulation results show that the proposed method effectively finds the optimal locations for a given number of sensors in a truss structure and accurately identifies the location and extent of structural damage using the measured modal data obtained from the optimized sensor distribution strategy.
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