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Abstract
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Vibration-based structural damage detection methods using optimization techniques
have increased extensively in recent decades due to the rapid development
of swarm intelligence and the introduction of robust and computationally
efficient optimizers. The differential evolution algorithm (DEA) is a widely used
optimization algorithm that has been successfully implemented for different engineering
problems since Storn and Price released it in 1997. This study analyzes
more than two decades of application of the DEA in structural damage detection
problems between 2001 and 2022. The main contribution of the present chapter
is to provide detailed and tabulated reviews of the methodologies, objectives,
and main findings of about 50 publications. This study also presents statistical
analysis to investigate the contribution of objective functions, types of structures,
number of publications per year, and percentage of utilized single-step, two-step
and multiple-step methods within the past two decades.
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