Damage Assessment of Structures VII

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: This collection of papers from a June 2007 conference covers damage assessment of engineering structures and systems, including signal processing of sensor measurements and analytical techniques, and presents experimental case studies. A significant portion of the book is devoted to signal processing and to computational methods. Among the topics covered are structural integrity and damage assessment, advanced prognosis, damage mechanisms, fatigue damage, damage location and quantification, sensors and measurement procedures, condition monitoring, real-time process monitoring, and practical applications. Specific subjects include experimental model analysis for damage detection of buildings via Gabor transform techniques, seismic damage quantification in a three-story laboratory structure, fatigue prevention on turbine blades, and system fatigue damage reliability assessment of railway riveted bridges.