A spectrum-driven approach for damage identification is proposed and validated through a numerical simulation.
Changes in the system's stiffness caused by evolutionary damage scenarios lead to changes in the system's spectral response.
The proposed method is based on the difference between damaged and undamaged spectral modes.
The spectral damage localization index always detects the damage when existing and does not yield false negatives.
Exciting the structure in the proximity of the damaged region may result in false positives.