Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection & Mechatronics, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016

Structural Health Monitoring, Damage Detection & Mechatronics, Volume 7. Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Dynamics of Multiphysical Systems: From Active Materials to Vibroacoustics, 2016, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early fi ndings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on: • Structural Health Monitoring • Damage Detection • Numerical Modeling • Mechatronics • System Identifi cation • Active Controls Front Matter....Pages i-viii Development and Characterization of an ITO Nanocomposite Film Sensor for Damage Detection....Pages 1-7 Fiber Optic Sensor Arrays for Real-Time Virtual Instrumentation and Control of Flexible Structures....Pages 9-22 On the Output-Only Vibration-Based Damage Detection of Frame Structures....Pages 23-33 On the Influence of Sample Length and Measurement Noise on the Stochastic Subspace Damage Detection Technique....Pages 35-46 Quantification of Structural Damage with Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 47-57 Accuracy Enhancement of a Device for Automated Underbridge Inspections....Pages 59-66 A Brief Overview of Mechatronics....Pages 67-74 Enhanced Vibration Damping by Means of a Negative Capacitance....Pages 75-81 Vehicle Tracking for Bridge Load Dynamics Using Vision Techniques....Pages 83-90 Model Based System Testing: Bringing Testing and Simulation Close Together....Pages 91-97 Time-Varying System Identification Using a Hybrid Blind Source Separation Method....Pages 99-104 An Energy Measure for Mode Localization....Pages 105-110 Vibration Control on a Space Flexible Structure with a PZT Stack Actuator Using Strain and MPPF Control....Pages 111-119 Multi-Reference Time-Frequency Active Control of Vehicle Interior Road Noise....Pages 121-128 Wireless Monitoring of the Dynamic Behavior of Railway Catenary Systems....Pages 129-139 Functional Series TARMA Models for Non-stationary Tool Vibration Signals Representation and Wear Estimation....Pages 141-151