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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

·         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 Mechanics

Contributions 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.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6:  Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the sixth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:

Teaching Experimental & Analytical Structural Dynamics

Sensors & Instrumentation

Aircraft/Aerospace

Bio-Dynamics

Sports Equipment Dynamics

Advanced ODS & Stress Estimation

Shock & Vibration

Full-Field Optical Measurements & Image Analysis

Structural Health Monitoring

Operational Modal Analysis

Wind Turbine Dynamics

Rotating Machinery

Finite Element Methods

Energy Harvesting

Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the seventh volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:

Fluid Structure Interaction

Adaptive Structures

Experimental Techniques

Analytical Methods

Damage Detection

Damping of Materials & Members

Modal Parameter Identification

Modal Testing Methods

System Identification

Active Control

Modal Parameter Estimation

Processing Modal Data

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the sixth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:

Aircraft/Aerospace

Active Control

Analytical Methods

System Identification

Sensors and Instrumentation