A physics-based approach to structural health monitoring (SHM) has practical shortcomings
which restrict its suitability to simple structures under well controlled environments. With the …

Due to the great challenges of measuring forces directly, identifying dynamic loads based on
accessible responses is a crucial problem in engineering, helping ensure integrity and …

Spectral Element Method in Structural Dynamics is a concise and timely introduction to the
spectral element method (SEM) as a means of solving problems in structural dynamics …

This study of the dynamic compressive strength properties of metal foams is in two parts.
Part I presents data from an extensive experimental study of closed-cell Hydro/Cymat …

Based on the Gegenbauer polynomial expansion theory and regularization method, an
analytical method is proposed to identify dynamic loads acting on stochastic structures …

A time-domain based method for distributed dynamic load identification is proposed in this
study considering unknown-but-bounded uncertainties in structural systems. The …

The dynamic compressive characteristics of a closed cell aluminium alloy foam
(manufactured by Hydro Aluminium AS, Norway) have been studied experimentally by using …

The growing use of composite structures in aerospace structures has attracted much interest
in structural health monitoring (SHM) for the localization of impact positions due to their poor …

Instead of traditional Tikhonov regularization, sparse regularization methods like ℓ 1
regularization have been a popular choice for impact force identification because it can …

In this work, a new methodology is presented for reconstruction of the impact force history
using artificial neural networks (ANNs) and spectral components of sensor data recorded by …