Abstracts Archive

In recent years, renewable energy sources utilization has boosted the use of wind energy, resulting in more offshore wind farms. Wind industry companies demand the safe operation of Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) and use Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) strategies to guarantee safe operation. Commo...

A growing number of urban structures, such as quay walls and bridges, are reaching the end of their operational life, while the cost of fully replacing these structures is often prohibitive. Consequently, asset owners face the challenge of having to perform manual assessment based on engineering mod...

Vibration based damage detection is a particularly challenging problem for reinforced concrete beams and frames for which evolution of natural frequencies with damage often do not properly reflect local distributions of stiffness losses, even when they are large. With the recent development of MEMS ...

Although rail is a sustainable and climate-friendly means of transport, vibration remains a particular environmental concern as it may cause annoyance to people and disturbance of sensitive equipment. Inspired by promising results obtained with seismic metamaterials to protect civil infrastructure f...

A common task in experimental structural analysis is to acquire data for parameter estimation of some parametric model. For example, in experimental modal analysis, such a model is the modal model, and the parameters are modal parameters. The classical optimal sensors placement (OSP) formulation is ...

The importance of uncertainty quantification has become increasingly more apparent, particularly in the field of system identification and modal analysis. The stochastic nature of the forcing in operational modal analysis (OMA) lends itself to variable identification performance. The need to quantif...

Structural damage detection is an inverse problem to identify and quantify structural damage from measurement data by discovering the change of structural mechanical parameters such as stiffness and damping coefficients. Recently, a novel deep learning framework named physics-informed neural network...

Dynamic properties of ships, especially damping, are important for predicting fatigue damage from wave-induced vibrations. Operational modal analysis (OMA) is useful for characterising the dynamics of structures through the identification of a modal model from vibration measurements. A modal model c...

Spider webs are multifunctional tools. Besides capturing prey, spiders monitor vibration in the web to localize prey. Spiders have an evolutionary benefit of improving monitoring, because better information processing leads to more caught prey, leading to higher chances for survival. Based on this, ...

The motivation to accurately model the dynamics of flexible aircraft grew with the development of great aspect ratio aircraft and the great research effort for the development of energy efficient and ecologically correct aircraft, such as those powered by solar energy. These configurations have, as ...