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In the current investigation, this technique is employed to monitor different plate structures experiencing flexural and torsional deformation fields. In order to reduce the number of installed sensors and obtain more accurate results, the iFEM is applied in synergy with smoothing element analysis (SEA), which allows the pre-extrapolation of the strain field over the entire structure from a limited number of measurement points. For the SEA extrapolation to be effective for a multitude of load cases, it is necessary to position the strain sensors appropriately. In this study, an innovative sensor placement strategy that relies on a multi-objective genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is proposed. This approach aims to minimize the root mean square error of the pre-extrapolated strain field across a set of mode shapes for the examined plate structures. The optimized strain reconstruction is subsequently utilized as input for the iFEM technique. Comparisons are drawn between the displacement field reconstructions obtained using the proposed methodology and the conventional iFEM. In order to validate such methodology, two different numerical case studies, one involving a rectangular cantilevered plate and the other encompassing a square plate clamped at the edges, are investigated. For the considered case studies, the results obtained by the proposed approach reveal a significant improvement in the monitoring capabilities over the basic iFEM algorithm with the same number of sensors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24020608","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,18]],"date-time":"2024-01-18T05:52:03Z","timestamp":1705557123000},"page":"608","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Shape Sensing in Plate Structures through Inverse Finite Element Method Enhanced by Multi-Objective Genetic Optimization of Sensor Placement and Strain Pre-Extrapolation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4693-8224","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Emiliano","family":"Del Priore","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, 00184 Rome, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5944-216X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luca","family":"Lampani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale, Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma, 00184 Rome, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"G\u00fcemes, A., Fernandez-Lopez, A., Pozo, A.R., and Sierra-P\u00e9rez, J. 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