Structural damage identification is basically a nonlinear phenomenon; however, nonlinear procedures are not used currently in practical applications due to the complexity and difficulty for implementation of such techniques. ...

Structural damage identification is basically a nonlinear phenomenon; however, nonlinear procedures are not used currently in practical applications due to the complexity and difficulty for implementation of such techniques. ...

Mathematical modeling of mechanical structures is an important research area in structural dynamics. The goal is to obtain a model that accurately predicts the dynamics of the system. However, the nonlinear effects caused ...

The Ball and Beam system is a common didactical experiment in control laboratories that can be used to illustrate many different closed-loop control techniques. The plant itself is subjected to many nonlinear effects, which ...

The aim of this paper is to identify a nonlinear model using time responses obtained from a sine sweep excitation applied to a simplif ied solar array structure. The nonlinearity is mainly caused by impacts, gaps and ...

Nonlinearities in the dynamical behavior of mechanical systems can degrade the performance of damage detection features based on a linearity assumption. In this article, a discrete Volterra model is used to monitor the ...

The consideration of nonlinearities in mechanical structures is a question of high importance because several common features as joints, large displacements and backlash may give rise to these kinds of phenomena. However, ...