This dissertation presents a new development of the wave method for structural health monitoring (SHM) of buildings. Robust and reliable SHM methods help save lives and reduce economic losses caused by earthquakes and other extreme events. Previously, in system identification and health monitoring, it was assumed that waves of different frequency propagate with constant velocity and the identif...

Aiming at the non-stationary and stall flutter problems of wind turbine blade caused by transient load fluctuations, the dynamic properties of wind turbine were studied, the blade was simplify to a cantilever beam in case of the action of shear deformation and cross section rotating effect were considered in this analysis, equations of the blade were established based on D'Alemberts' principle ...

In mechanical system modeling, uncertainties are present and, to improve the predictability of the models, they should be taken into account. This work discusses uncertainties present in boundary conditions using the model of a vibrating Timoshenko beam, free in one end and pinned with rotation constrained by a linear elastic torsional spring in the other end. The Finite Element Method is used ...

among the intermolecular interactions, the casimir and van der waals forces are the most important forces that highly affect the behavior of nanostructures. this paper studies the effect of such forces on the adhesion of cantilever freestanding nanostructures. the nanostructures are made of a freestanding nano-beam which is suspended between two upper and lower conductive surfaces. the linear s...

This article deals with the mechanical analysis of a fixed-fixed nano-beam based on nonlocal elasticity theory. The nano-beam is sandwiched with two piezoelectric layers through it’s upper and lower sides. The electromechanical coupled equations governing the problem are derived based nonlocal theory considering to Euler-Bernoulli beam assumptions and based on the nonlocal piezoelectricity acco...

We consider in this manuscript  a Timoshenko type beam model with distributed delay term.  If the term is small enough, we prove global existence of solutions by using Faedo-Galerkin approximations together some energy estimates. Under suitable assumptions, exponential stability solution. This result obtained introducing Lyapounov function.

The purpose of this paper is to show how the Timoshenko beam can be fruitfully approached within the framework of distributed port Hamiltonian systems (dpH systems) so that rather simple and elegant considerations can be drawn regarding both the modeling and control of this mechanical system. After the distributed port Hamiltonian (dpH) model of the beam is introduced, the control problem is di...

Typically, the Electromechanical Impedance (EMI) technique does not use an analytical model for basic damage identification. However, an accurate model is necessary for getting more information about any damage. In this paper, an EMI model is presented for predicting the electromechanical impedance of a cracked beam structure quantitatively. A coupled system of a cracked Timoshenko beam with a ...

In this paper, the dynamic response of a simply supported beam subjected to moving load is reinvestigated. Based on new theory, slope inertia-based Timoshenko (SIBT), governing equations motion are derived. An analytical solution presented by using coupled Fourier and Laplace–Carson integral transformation method. The finite element also developed compared with solution. Then, comparative study...