the normalized full gradient (nfg) method defined by berezkin (1967, 1973 and 1998) is used for downward continuation maps. analytical downward continuation is a method to estimate the field closer to the source and consequently results in a better resolution of underground rock distribution. however, the usefulness of this process is limited by the fact that the operation is extremely sensitiv...

this paper presents new sensitivity-based methods for detection of structural damage using incomplete noisy modal data. these methods are based on the first-order derivative of modal parameters. changes of natural frequency do not usually provide spatial information on the structural damage. they are also not sensitive to the local damage. in this paper, a new sensitivity function is proposed u...