A practical investigation to solving the inverse problem of crack identification through vibration measurements

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 32-56

  Ressing, Henning ^a,c   Gadala, Mohamed S ^b  

^a AUDI AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Audi ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Optimization techniques; Rotational motion; Vibration measurement

Indexed keywords

CRACK SIZE; NODAL CRACK; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; ROTATIONAL MOTION;

ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 29244442702     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400610638961     Document Type: Article

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