ABSTRACT
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.
