Abstract: A system identification technique is presented for nondestructive test to detect and to characterize the existence and location of cracks and other damages in composite structures. Various composite ...

Abstract: The Random Decrement Technique has shown promise as an inspection technique for offshore structures. The major advantage of this technique is that it requires only measurements of the dynamic ...

Abstract: An experimental investigation has been carried out to verify the validity of the use of the random decrement technique to determine the damping coefficients for a circular cylinder oscillating ...

Abstract: Experiments have been performed to study natural convection flow and heat transfer in a horizontal annulus when a square heating element is positioned at different locations on the inner insulated ...

Abstract: Both analytical and numerical calculations are performed to study the buoyancy effect on the reversed flow structure and heat transfer processes in a finite vertical duct with a height to ...

Abstract: Secondary flow structure and its enhancement on the heat transfer in a horizontal divergent channel have been studied. The bottom wall is horizontal and is heated uniformly while the opposite ...

Abstract: Significant progress has been achieved in the active control of civil-engineering structures, not only in the control algorithm, but also in the control testing of the scale model and full-scale building. At the present ...

Abstract: The identification and modeling of linear and nonlinear dynamic systems through the use of measured experimental data is a problem of considerable importance in engineering. Among the identification methods, the artificial ...