Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013

Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the seventh volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on: Fluid Structure Interaction Adaptive Structures Experimental Techniques Analytical Methods Damage Detection Damping of Materials & Members Modal Parameter Identification Modal Testing Methods System Identification Active Control Modal Parameter Estimation Processing Modal Data Similar content being.

Table of Contents:
1 Damage Detection Using Flexibility Proportional Coordinate Modal Assurance Criterion 2 Automated Selection of Damage Detection Features by Genetic Programming 3 Optimal Selection of Artificial Boundary Conditions for Model Update and Damage Detection – Part 1: Theory 4 Optimal Selection of Artificial Boundary Conditions for Model Update and Damage Detection – Part 2: Experiment 5 Detection of Mass Change on a Glass Plate 6 Vibro-Acoustic Research on a Full-Scale Aircraft Structure 7 Control of Dynamic Mass as Boundary Condition for Testing Substructures 8 Multi-body-Simulation of a Self Adaptive Torsional Vibration Absorber 9 Combined Optimization of Actuator/Sensor Positions and Weighting Matrices for an Active Noise Reduction System 10 SSDI Technique Evolution to Improve Attenuation Performances with Random Disturbances 11 Geometrically Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Piezoelectric Integrated Thin-Walled Smart Structures 12 Linear/Nonlinear Reduced-Order Substructuring for Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Accuracy Assessment 13 Damage Detection in an Energy Flow Model Including Parameter Uncertainty 14 A Coupled Approach for Structural Damage Detection with Incomplete Measurements 15 Efficient and Robust Solution of Inverse Structural Dynamic Problems for Vibration Health Monitoring 16 Finite Element-Based Damage Detection Using Expanded Ritz Vector Residuals 17 Proportional Damping from Experimental Data 18 Superior Damping of Hybrid Carbon Fiber Composites Grafted by ZnO Nanorods 19 Advanced Identification Techniques for Operational Wind Turbine Data 20 Tracking and Removing Modulated Harmonic Components with Spectral Kurtosis and Kalman Filters 21 Vibration Reduction of Brush Cutter 22 Design of a Test Setup for Measuring Dynamic Stiffness of Vibration Isolators 23 An Impact Excitation System for Repeatable, High-Bandwidth Modal Testing of Miniature Structures 24 Replicating Aerodynamic Excitation in the Laboratory 25 A Systematic Approach to Modal Testing of Nonlinear Structures 26 Fiber Optics Sensing of Stressing and Fracture in Cylindrical Structures 27 Real-Time Damage Identification in Nonlinear Smart Structures Using Hyperchaotic Excitation and Stochastic Estimation 28 Damage Detection Based on Electromechanical Impedance Principle and Principal Components 29 Enhanced Modal Wavelet Analysis for Damage Detection in Beams 30 Linear Projection Techniques in Damage Detection Under a Changing Environment 31 Modal Reduction Based on Accurate Input-Output Relation Preservation 32 Fast Precise Algorithm of Computing FRF by Considering Initial Response 33 Development of Full Space System Model Modes from Expansion of Reduced Order Component Modal Information 34 Damage Localization from the Image of Changes in Flexibility 35 Spectral Element Method for Cable Harnessed Structure 36 Analytic Formula Derivation for a Rolling Tire with a Ring Model 37 Nonlinear Identification of the Viscous Damping of the Resistor for Nuclear Plants 38 Effect of Spin Speed on Stability Lobes in High Speed Machining 39 Chatter Reduction in Turning by Using Piezoelectric Shunt Circuits 40 Damage Quantification from the Column Space of Flexibility Changes 41 State Estimate of Wind Turbine Blades Using Geometrically Exact Beam Theory 42 Damage Index Matrix: A Novel Damage Identification Method Using Hilbert-Huang Transformation 43 An Approach to the Moving Load Problem for Multiple Cracked Beam 44 Detection of Structural Damage Through Nonlinear Identification by Using Modal Testing 45 Vibration Fatigue Analysis of a Cantilever Beam Using Different Fatigue Theories 46 Automated Modal Analysis Based on Statistical Evaluation of Frequency Responses 47 The Modal Observability Correlation as a Modal Correlation Metric 48 A Modal Test Method Based on Vibro-acoustical Reciprocity 49 Reactionless Test to Identify Dynamic Young’s Modulus and Damping of Isotropic Plastic Materials 50 Real-Time Modal Analysis of Shell-Shaped Objects Using High-Frame-Rate Structured-Light-Based Vision 51 Field and Numerical Testing of the BWE SchRs4600.50 Dynamic Behavior 52 Modal Analysis of Rotating Carbon Nanotube Infused Composite Beams 53 Modal Analysis and Dynamic Monitoring of a Concentrating Solar Heliostat 54 Identification of Stability Cutting Parameters Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry 55 System Identification Using Kalman Filters 56 Identification of Time-Varying Nonlinear Systems Using Differential Evolution Algorithm 57 Experimental Verification and Improvement of Dynamic Characterization Method for Structural Joints 58 Transfer Functions to Measure Translational and Rotational Velocities with Continuous-Scan Laser Doppler Vibrometry 59 Empirical Slow-Flow Identification for Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection 60 Continuous Scanning for Acoustic Field Characterization 61 Operating Deflection Shapes of a Violin String via High Speed/High Resolution Videography 62 Automated Measurement Grid Generation for Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometers 63 Mode Filtering of Continuous Scanning Laser Doppler Vibration Data 64 The Characterization of the Time Delay Problem in Hardware in the Loop System Applications 65 Optimal Placement of Piezoelectric Patches on a Cylindrical Shell for Active Vibration Control 66 Adaptive Feedback Linearisation and Control of a Flexible Aircraft Wing 67 Limit Cycle Assignment in Nonlinear Aeroelastic Systems Using Describing Functions and the Receptance Method 68 Investigation of an Active Structural Acoustic Control System on a Complex 3D Structure 69 Development of a Stabilized Pan/Tilt Platform and the State of the Art 70 Dynamic Equations for an Anisotropic Cylindrical Shell 71 Expansion of Nonlinear System Response Using Linear Transformation Matrices from Reduced Component Model Representations 72 Explicit Construction of Rods and Beams with Given Natural Frequencies 73 A Metric for Modal Truncation in Model Reduction Problems Part 1: Performance and Error Analysis 74 A Metric for Modal Truncation in Model Reduction Problems Part 2: Extension to Systems with High-Dimensional Input Space 75 On Gramian-Based Techniques for Minimal Realization of Large-Scale Mechanical Systems