To address the limitations of current sensor systems for field applications, the research
community has been actively exploring new technologies that can advance the state-of-the …

The grid method is a technique suitable for the measurement of in‐plane displacement and
strain components on specimens undergoing a small deformation. It relies on a regular …

This paper presents a critical comparative assessment of Kriging model variants for
surrogate based uncertainty propagation considering stochastic natural frequencies of …

Over the last few decades, uncertainty quantification in composite materials and structures
has gained a lot of attention from the research community as a result of industrial …

Through experimental and numerical investigation, this article investigates the constitutive
and impact response of the 1.6 mm thick AA7474-T7351 plate under the impact of blunt and …

A robust optical displacement measurement method is proposed herein for long-span
bridges by considering complex environmental interference, such as illumination changes …

A successful fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) strategy for chillers is highly dependent on
three core aspects, an accurate reference model, a sensitive fault detection technique and …

Measuring small-magnitude strain fields using a digital image correlation (DIC) technique is
challenging, due to the noise-signal ratio in strain maps. Here, we determined the level of …

The ability to regulate a material's fracture toughness is critical for achieving ductile fracture
arrest design for the transportation and defiance industry. The present study utilized the data …

In order to characterize errors of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) algorithms, sets of virtual
images are often generated from a reference image by in-plane sub-pixel translations. This …