Abstract:To improve the efficiency of damage diagnosis of beam structures, a structural damage identification method, based on the analogous flexibility difference curvature and frequency perturbation was established. First, according to the theory of structural vibration, the calculation formula of generalized flexibility matrix was studied. Utilizing the high sensitivity of modal flexibility to structural damage, the damage location index, based on flexibility difference curvature, was improved, and the damage index of LCFC (the difference of likeness curvature of flexibility coefficient) was defined and used to preliminarily identify damage. Identification result of structural damage was confirmed based on matrix perturbation. Considering various damage conditions, damage identification of the simply supported beam structure was verified by numerical simulation. Results showed that the LCFC index has a good diagnostic effect on the damage location of beam structures using only the first mode. Calculation workload of the index was small. For multi-damage cases with boundary damage elements, the LCFC index was effective when the damage degree was >10%. When the damage degree was < 25%, accuracy of the second-order perturbation identification results was high and the relative error was significantly lower than that of the first-order perturbation identification results, which proved the practicability, effectiveness, and accuracy of the method.