“…In the last few years, entropy, a powerful nonlinear measurement, has been introduced in different fields such as neuroscience (Li et al, 2018a(Li et al, , 2018bWang et al, 2018aWang et al, , 2018b, monitoring of electrical machines (Wu et al, 2018), monitoring of gearboxes (Figlus, 2019), cardiac diseases (Acharya et al, 2018;Kumar et al, 2016), and the health monitoring of simple beams of few structural elements (Diao et al, 2018;Moreno-Gomez et al, 2018), among other fields. Entropy provides a measure of data randomness encountered in a nonlinear and nonstationary time signal (Shannon, 1948), making it an appropriate tool for detecting damage in civil structures because the measured signals can vary according to damage and its severity encountered in the civil structure, thus producing a change in the entropy value.…”