Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 28th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2010 (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)

__Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, Volume 1__ embraces the topics of structural dynamics and renewable energy, breaking them down into more than 50 categories. The topics covered include shock and vibration, damping in solids, nonlinear modeling, structural health modeling, structural dynamics, and rotating machinery. This the first volume of the five-volume set of Proceedings of the 28th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2010. This book brings together 34 total chapters on Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy, and is a part of the Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series . Front Matter....Pages i-ix Experimental Modal Analysis of 9-meter Research-sized Wind Turbine Blades....Pages 1-14 Modal Analysis of CX-100 Rotor Blade and Micon 65/13 Wind Turbine....Pages 15-27 Modeling, Estimation, and Monitoring of Force Transmission in Wind Turbines....Pages 29-38 Optical Non-contacting Vibration Measurement of Rotating Turbine Blades II....Pages 39-44 Application of a Wireless Sensor Node to Health Monitoring of Operational Wind Turbine Blades....Pages 45-53 Structural Damage Identification in Wind Turbine Blades Using Piezoelectric Active Sensing....Pages 55-65 Energy Recovering from Vibrations in Road Vehicle Suspensions....Pages 67-75 Development of MEMS-based Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters....Pages 77-84 Analysis of Switching Systems Using Averaging Methods for Piezostructures....Pages 85-101 In-field testing of a steel wind turbine tower....Pages 103-112 Full-scale modal wind turbine tests: comparing shaker excitation with wind excitation....Pages 113-124 Damage Detection in Wind Turbine Blade Panels Using Three Different SHM Techniques....Pages 125-134 Force Estimation via Kalman Filtering for Wind Turbine Blade Control....Pages 135-143 Aspects of Operational Modal Analysis for Structures of Offshore Wind Energy Plants....Pages 145-152 Operational Modal Analysis of a Wind Turbine Mainframe using Crystal Clear SSI....Pages 153-162 Practical Aspects of Dynamic Substructuring in Wind Turbine Engineering....Pages 163-185 Developments in Large Wind Turbine Modal Analysis Using Point Tracking Videogrammetry....Pages 187-198 Optimal Design of Magnetostrictive Transducers for Power Harvesting From Vibrations....Pages 199-210 Experimental Investigations of a Bistable Energy Harvester....Pages 211-217 Response of Uni-Modal Duffing-Type Harvesters to Random Excitations....Pages 219-226 Self-powered Active Control of Structures with TMDs....Pages 227-238 Energy Harvesting Under Induced Best Conditions....Pages 239-245 Frequency Domain Solution of a Piezo-aero-elastic Wing for Energy Harvesting....Pages 247-259 Mechanical effect of combined piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvesting....Pages 261-272 Vibro-Impact Dynamics of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester....Pages 273-280 Experimental Vibration Analysis of the Zigzag Structure for Energy Harvesting....Pages 281-290 Energy Harvesting to Power Sensing Hardware Onboard Wind Turbine Blade....Pages 291-304 Limit Cycle Oscillations of a Nonlinear Piezo-magneto-elastic Structure for Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting....Pages 305-316 Applicability Limits of Operational Modal Analysis to Operational Wind Turbines....Pages 317-327 Excitation Methods for a 60 kW Vertical Axis Wind Turbine....Pages 329-338 Comparison of System Identification Techniques for Predicting Dynamic Properties of Large Scale Wind Turbines by Using the Simulated Time Response....Pages 339-349 Identification of the Dynamics of Large Wind Turbines by Using Photogrammetry....Pages 351-359 Output-Only Modal Analysis of Linear Time Periodic Systems with Application to Wind Turbine Simulation Data....Pages 361-374 Validation of Wind Turbine Dynamics....Pages 375-380 Annotation The Collection embraces Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy into more than 50 categories, including Shock and Vibration, Damping in Solids, Nonlinear Modeling, Structural Health Modeling, Structural Dynamics, and Rotating Machinery. This the first volume of the five-volume set brings together 34 chapters on Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy This Collection embraces Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy into more than 50 categories, including Shock and Vibration, Damping in Solids, Nonlinear Modeling, Structural Health Modeling, Structural Dynamics, and Rotating Machinery. This the first volume of the five-volume set brings together 34 chapters on Structural Dynamics and Renewable Energy