Detection of Damage Location Based on Sensitivity Analysis

This paper reporis the application of a proposed method, which is based on sensitivi@ analysis, in the defection of damage location for skeletal structures. Experiment on a 2-storey steel frame has been carried out for the verification of the proposed method. Dnifferent damage cases have been simulated on the frame and the results show that the proposed method can locate the damage on the frame no matter the damage is at column-base or beam-column connection.