Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2011 (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)

Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics, Volume 6. Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together�27 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 Structural Health Monitoring, High Intensity Noise Generation and other Special Topics. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Forming Limit Diagram for AA3105....Pages 1-6 Multi-field Microphone – when the Sound Field is unknown....Pages 7-15 Separating Three Sources of Changes in Structural Health Monitoring....Pages 17-25 Structural Damage Identification with Various Uncertainties....Pages 27-34 Excitation techniques for testing bike vibration transmission in the laboratory....Pages 35-43 Damage Detection Using Blind Source Separation Techniques....Pages 45-56 Application of Image Sensing to Motion Study of High-voltage Switchgear....Pages 57-64 CAE Based Approach to Understand a Behavior of Vibro-Acoustic System....Pages 65-72 Verification of coverage of inverse-numerical acoustic analysis....Pages 73-80 Prototype WSN Platform for Performing Dynamic Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures....Pages 81-89 Damage Identification in CRFP Laminates using a Statistical Method....Pages 91-101 High Intensity Noise Generation for Extremely Large Reverberant Room Test Applications....Pages 103-118 Human Induced Dynamic Loads Estimation Based on Body Motion....Pages 119-125 In the Field Validation of Human Induced Loads Measuring Technique....Pages 127-135 Optimal Selection of Artificial Boundary Conditions for Model Update and Damage Detection....Pages 137-154 Use of Damping Solution for Acceleration Measurements in High Vibration Environments....Pages 155-160 Efficiency comparison of CMS vibroacoustic formulations for uncertain damped problems....Pages 161-175 Nonlinear Parameteric Health Monitoring for Vibrating Structures Under Non-Stationary Excitation....Pages 177-185 Displacement Based Approach for a Robust Operational Modal Analysis....Pages 187-195 Effect of systematic FRF errors on matrix inversion based vibro-acoustic analysis methods....Pages 197-206 Peri-Prosthetic Fracture Vibration Testing....Pages 207-225 Performance Comparison of Fiber Optic Tips in Interferometric Displacement Measurements....Pages 227-235 Development of Polymer ‘Chips’ used in Medical Diagnostics....Pages 237-246 Acoustic Fluid-Structure Interaction of Cars and Ships (Tutorial)....Pages 247-253 The Testing Behind the Test Facility: The Acoustic Design of the Nasa Glenn Research Center’s World-Class Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility....Pages 255-261 Detection of Damage in Space Frame Structures with L-shaped Beams and Bolted Joints Using Changes in Natural Frequencies....Pages 263-289 Steels for Caribbean Steel Drums....Pages 291-307 Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics, Volume 6. Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 27 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 Structural Health Monitoring, High Intensity Noise Generation and other Special Topics. Rotating Machinery, Structural Health Monitoring, Shock and Vibration, Volume 5 Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 35 contributions to this important area of research and engineering.