Damage Assessment of Structures VII: (Volume 347 Key Engineering Materials)

This collection covers the many activities, relevant to the damage assessment of engineering structures and systems, including the signal processing of sensor measurements and analytical techniques, as well as experimental case studies.The themes addressed reflect the current intense interest in the wider field of damage assessment; in particular, it is interesting to observe the sharp rise in the popularity of acoustic emission methods; as reflected by the high number of papers in this area. A significant proportion of the book is dedicated to signal processing and to computational methods.Among the topics covered are: Structural integrity and damage assessment, Advanced methods of NDT, Developments in signal processing and algorithms, System diagnosis and prognosis, Damage mechanisms, Fatigue damage, Damage location and quantification, Sensors and measurement procedures, Condition monitoring, Real-time process monitoring, Practical applications and case studies.Altogether, this will make this work essential reading for anyone with an interest in this field.

Table of Contents:
Aspects of Novelty Detection Identification of Structural Property Degradations by Computational Model Updating Structural Identification and Health Monitoring on the Historical Architectural Heritage Structural Analysis Methods for Structural Health Management of Future Aerospace Vehicles Damage Assessment of Structures - An Air Force Office of Scientific Research Structural Mechanics Perspective Multi-Phased Array for Damage Localisation Generalized Fourier Coefficients and Applications to Damage Detection in Rods A Multi-Algorithm Procedure for Damage Location and Quantification in the Field of Continuous Static Monitoring of Structures Damage Localization Using Levenberg-Marquardt Optimization Finite Element Model Updating of a Steel–Concrete Composite Moment - Resisting Structure with Partial Strength Joints Damage Localization in Systems with Unknown Inputs Guided Waves in Steel Rails – Experimental Works and Wavelet Signal Processing Experimental Application of a Damage Localisation Technique Based on Smoothed Proper Orthogonal Modes Vibration–Based Structural Damage Detection and Precise Assessment via Stochastic Functionally Pooled Models On the Applicability of the Ho-Kalman Minimal Realization Theory A Principal Component Analysis of Acoustic Emission Signals from a Landing Gear Component Damage Detection Using Prior Wavelet Decompositions Monitoring of Growing Fatigue Damage Using the E/M Impedance Method Fatigue Damage Prevention on Turbine Blades: Study of Underplatform Damper Shape In-Situ Load Testing: A Theoretical Procedure to Design a Diagnostic Cyclic Load Test on a Reinforced Concrete Two-Way Slab Floor System System Fatigue Damage Reliability Assessment of Railway Riveted Bridges Fatigue Behavior of RC Slab Retrofitted with Carbon Fiber Mesh after Different Levels of Pre-Damage Assessing the Feasibility of Monitoring the Condition of Historic Tapestries Using Engineering Techniques Damage Assessment of Beams Using Flexural Wave Reflection Coefficients Damage Assessment of Nanostructures Damage Detection in an Aluminium Plate with an Active Constrained Layer Damping Treatment An Investigation on Damage Detection in Aircrafts Panels Using Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Modal-Model Applications for Large Energetic Machines Bayesian Approach to Condition Monitoring of PRC Bridges Near Real-Time Monitoring of Bead Area Damage in Rolling Tires Using a Rotating Wheel Model and Multi-Directional Vibration Data New Image Processing Tools for Structural Dynamic Monitoring Nonstationary System Monitoring Using Cointegration Testing Method Wavelet Analysis for Damage Identification in Composite Structures Experimental Modal Analysis for Damage Detection of Buildings via Gabor Transform Technique Advanced Rolling-Element Bearing Diagnostics Based on Cyclic Spectral Analysis Bearing Fault Detection Using Higher-Order Statistics Based ARMA Model Structural Health Monitoring on Real Scale Model of a Masonry Triumphal Arch Rc Infilled Frame: Shaking Table Tests on a Full Scale Model Damage Quantification and Monitoring in Masonry Monuments through Digital Photogrammetry Experimental Seismic Damage Quantification in a 3-Storey Laboratory Structure A Framework for Novelty Detection in Jet Engine Vibration Data Structural Health Monitoring Experimental System Implemented in a Turboprop Commercial Aircraft Effect of Crowning of Dovetail Joints on Turbine Blade Root Damping Comparison of RBF Neural Network and Support Vector Machine on Aero-Engine Vibration Fault Diagnosis Instantaneous Identification of Bouc-Wen-Type Hysteretic Systems from Seismic Response Data Assessment of Damage Due to Earthquake-Induced Pounding between the Main Building and the Stairway Tower The Umberto I Gallery in Naples: The Influence of Corrosion Damage on the Seismic Performance of the Iron Roofing Structure Experimental and Numerical Modal Identification of the Fossanova Gothic Cathedral Fatigue and Fracture Evaluation of a 70 Year Old Steel Bridge The Structural Stability Analysis of a Container Crane According to the Boom Shape Using Wind Tunnel Test Measurement of Acoustic Emission Signals: Influence of the Couplant A Numerical Determination of Acoustic Emission Sensor Response in Plates Using Dispersion Curves Sensor Fault Identification Using Autoregressive Models and the Mutual Information Concept Design and Numerical Simulation of an Optic Fibre Sensor for Damage Assessment of Structures Broadband Source-Based Interrogation Scheme of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Sensing Crack Detection in Beams by Means of the Driving Force Parameters Variation at Non-Linear Resonance Vibrations Minimum Relative Entropy Criterion for Damage Detection and Location Structural Damage Identification Using Low Frequency Non-Resonance Harmonic Excitation Modelling Damage Progression by a Statistical Energy-Balance Algorithm Finite Element Analysis of an Improved Center Crack Specimen Distributions of Local Damage Variable and Local Plastic Tensile Strain and Precursors to Failure of Quasi-Brittle Pure Bending Beam Using the Detection and Relative Damage Quantification Indicator (DRQ) with Transmissibility An Updated Comparison of the Force Reconstruction Methods Output-Only Technique for Parameter Identification of Nonlinear Systems Working under Operational Loads Combining Cyclostationarity and the Frequency Domain Subspace Technique for Operational Modal Analysis Automated Operational Modal Analysis as Structural Health Monitoring Tool: Theoretical and Applicative Aspects Plastic Optical Fiber Displacement Sensor for Cracks Monitoring Dynamics of Structures with Piezoelectric Sensors and Actuators for Structural Health Monitoring Wireless Sensor Network Based Bridge Monitoring System Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Structures with Sol-Gel Spray Sensors Displacement Measurement of an Existing Long Span Steel Box-Girder Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Computing Method for Estimating Strain and Stress of Steel Beams Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and FEM Damage Assessment of Adhesively Bonded FRP Beams Using Modal Parameters Dynamic Behaviour of Undamaged and Damaged Multilayered Composite Plates Influence of Temperature Fields on Wave Propagation in Composite Plates On the propagation of Lamb Waves in Viscoelastic Composites for SHM Applications An Interval Uncertainty Based Method for Damage Identification Experimental and Numerical Coupling Proof of Conical Frictional Joints Computational Approaches for Good Alternative Solutions Based Load Resistance Capacity in Design of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames An Interval Parameter Perturbation Method for Predicting the Natural Frequency Bounds of Intelligent Truss Structures with Uncertain-But-Bounded Parameters Damage Mechanisms Interpreted by Acoustic Emission Signal Analysis Locating Damage In Waveguides From Point FRF Measurements Damage Localization Based on Power Spectral Density Analysis Application of the Higher Modes to Crack Identification in a Cantilever Beam Incipient Crack Identification in Beam Structures Using the Slope of the Anti-Resonance Curve Leak Location in a T-Shaped Pipe with CFD Modelling Structural Integrity Monitoring of Composite Pipes Damage Monitoring of Composite Materials Using Pulsed Phase Thermography and Thermoelastic Stress Analysis Experience and Technologies in NDT of Ropes A Novel Ultrasonic Technique to Detect Damage Evolution in Quasi-Brittle Materials Acoustic Techniques for Wind Turbine Blade Monitoring Vibration-Based Damage Assessment for Controller Reconfiguration: Application to an Oilpan Effect of Impact-Fatigue on Damage in Adhesive Joints Robust Post-Accident Reconstruction of Loading Forces Damage Assessment through Impact Force History Recording Effect of the Strain Rate on the Mechanical Behaviour of Epoxy Adhesives Real-Time Flutter Detection from In-Flight Vibration Data Lateral Vibration of Footbridges under Crowd-Loading: Continuous Crowd Modeling Approach Reconstruction Problem of Reinforced Concrete Beams under Harmonic Excitations Active Vibration Control of a Cracked Composite Beam by MSM Actuators