“…In recent decades, structural damage evaluation has become a key issue in the field of civil engineering, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering and so on. The method based on natural frequency changes [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11] is one of the mainstream methods for structural damage evaluation, since the natural frequencies are most easily and accurately measured in comparison with other dynamic characteristics of a structure. Messina et al [3] proposed a damage detection method termed the multiple damage location assurance criterion by using the natural frequency sensitivity analysis.…”