Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics (eBook)

The SEM Handbook of Experimental Structural Dynamics stands as a comprehensive overview and reference for its subject, applicable to workers in research, product design and manufacture, and practice. The Handbook is devoted primarily to the areas of structural mechanics served by the Society for Experimental Mechanics IMAC community, such as modal analysis, rotating machinery, structural health monitoring, shock and vibration, sensors and instrumentation, aeroelasticity, ground testing, finite element techniques, model updating, sensitivity analysis, verification and validation, experimental dynamics sub-structuring, quantification of margin and uncertainty, and testing of civil infrastructure. Chapters offer comprehensive, detailed coverage of decades of scientific and technologic advance and all demonstrate an experimental perspective. Several sections specifically discuss the various types of experimental testing and common practices utilized in the automotive, aerospace, and civil structures industries.          History of Experimental Structural Mechanics          DIC Methods - Dynamic Photogrammetry          LDV Methods          Applied Digital Signal Processing          Introduction to Spectral - Basic Measurements          Structural Measurements - FRF          Random and Shock Testing          Rotating System Analysis Methods          Sensors Signal Conditioning Instrumentation          Design of Modal Tests          Experimental Modal Methods          Experimental Modal Parameter Evaluation          Operating Modal Analysis Methods          Analytical Numerical Substructuring          Finite Element Model Correlation          Model Updating          Damping of Materials and Structures          Model Calibration and Validation in Structures          Uncertainty Quantification: UQ, QMU and Statistics          Nonlinear System Analysis Methods (Experimental)          Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection          Experimental Substructure Modeling          Modal Modeling          Response (Impedance) Modeling          Nonlinear Normal Mode Analysis Techniques (Analytical)          Modal Modeling with Nonlinear Connection Elements (Analytical)          Acoustics of Structural Systems (VibroAcoustics)          Automotive Structural Testing          Civil Structural Testing          Aerospace Perspective for Modeling and Validation          Sports Equipment Testing          Applied Math for Experimental Structural MechanicsContributions present important theory behind relevant experimental methods as well as application and technology. Topical authors emphasize and dissect proven methods and offer detail beyond a simple review of the literature. Additionally, chapters cover practical needs of scientists and engineers who are new to the field. In most cases, neither the pertinent theory nor, in particular, the practical issues have been presented formally in current academic textbooks. Each chapter in the Handbook represents a must read for someone new to the subject or for someone returning to the field after an absence. Reference lists in each chapter consist of the seminal papers in the literature.This Handbook stands in parallel to the SEM Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics, where this Handbook focuses on experimental dynamics of structures at a macro-scale often involving multiple components and materials where theSEM Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics focuses on experimental mechanics of materials at a nano-scale and/or micro-scale.