REVIEW

When a structure suffers from damages, its dynamic properties can change, especi
ally, crack damage can cause a stiffness reduction, with an inherent eduction i
n natural frequencies, an increase in modal damping, and a change of the mode sh
apes. Orhan Sadettin [1] has studied the free and forced vibration analysis of a
cracked beam was performed in order to identify the crack in a cantilever beam.
Single- and two-edge cracks were evaluated. Dynamic response of the forced vibr
ation better describes changes in crack depth and location than the free vibrati
on in which the difference between natural frequencies corresponding to a change
in crack depth and location only is a minor effect. Chasalevris and Papadopoulo
s [2] have studied the dynamic behaviour of a cracked beam with two transverse s
urface cracks. Each crack is characterised by its depth, position and relative a
ngle. A local compliance matrix of two degrees of freedom, bending in the horizo
ntal and the vertical planes is used to model the rotating transverse crack in t
he shaft and is calculated based on the available expressions of the stress inte
nsity factors and the associated expressions for the strain energy release rates
. Nahvi and Jabbari [3] have developed an analytical, as well as experimental ap
proach to the crack detection in cantilever beams by vibration analysis. An expe
rimental setup is designed in which a cracked cantilever beam is excited by a ha
mmer and the response is obtained using an accelerometer attached to the beam. T
o avoid non-linearity, it is assumed that the crack is always open. To identify
the crack, contours of the normalized frequency in terms of the normalized crack
depth and location are plotted.Yang et al.[4] have developed an energy-based nu
merical model is to investigate the influence of cracks on structural dynamic ch
aracteristics during the vibration of a beam with open crack. Upon the determina
tion of strain energy in the cracked beam, the equivalent bending stiffness over
the beam length is computed Dharmaraju et al.[5] have used Euler Bernoulli beam
element in the finite element modeling. The transverse surface crack is consider
ed to remain open. The crack has been modeled by a local compliance matrix of fo
ur degrees of freedom. This compliance matrix contains diagonal and off-diagonal
terms. A harmonic force of known amplitude and frequency is used to dynamically
excite the beam. The present identification algorithms have been illustrated th
rough numerical examples. Loutridis et al.[6] present a new method for crack det
ection in beams based on instantaneous frequency and empirical mode decompositio
n is proposed. The dynamic behaviour of a cantilever beam with a breathing crack
under harmonic excitation is investigated both theoretically and experimentally
. Suh et al. [7] has been established that a crack has an important effect on th
e dynamic behavior of a structure. This effect depends mainly on the location an
d depth of the crack. To identify the location and depth of a crack on a structu
re, a method is presented in this paper which uses hybrid neuro-genetic techniqu
e. Feed-forward multi-layer neural networks trained by back propagation are used
to learn the input and output relation of the structural system. With this trai
ned neural network, genetic algorithm is used to identify the crack location and
depth minimizing the difference from the measured frequencies.