Nowadays, in the civil engineering practice, the pile-building is the most universal type of foundation. It is usually associated with bridges, fly-overs and other civil engineering objects, industrial buildings, tall buildings, chimneys, tanks etc [1]. It is essential to control the quality of concrete piles. The most accepted weight-bearing capacity measurement technique is the static probe l...

Many problems faced in the engineering world are computationally intensive. Filtering using FIR (Finite Impulse Response) filters is an example to that. This thesis discusses the implementation of a fast, reconfigurable, and scalable FIR (Finite Impulse Response) digital filter. Constant coefficient multipliers and a Fast FIFO implementation are also discussed in connection with the FIR filter....

This paper proposes a suitable method for simulating impulses with appropriate amplitude, spectral, and inter-arrival characteristics. The statistics used to develop the parameters of this model are based on statistics derived from observations of impulse noise on the telephone networks of British Telecom (BT) and Deutsche Telekom (DT). This paper initially reviews the former DT approach to imp...

An algorithm to generate representations of system identification (SI) errors, which enables systematic testing of the performance of system equalization techniques, is proposed. With this algorithm, the normalized projection misalignment (NPM) of the generated error representation can be chosen to suit the particular characteristics of the application under test. Additionally, the generated er...

With the rapid development of system-on-chip (SoC) applications, containing digital and analogue parts, the need for fast and reliable on-chip testing methods has become obvious. We present a method for a fast and accurate broadband determination of the behaviour of analogue and mixed-signal circuits. This technique is based on impulse response (IR) evaluation using pseudo-random Maximum–Length...

The Resonalyser method uses resonance frequencies measured on rectangular plate specimens to identify orthotropic material properties. An inverse technique is used to update the material properties in a numerical model of the test plate. The obtained material properties of steel and aluminum test plates are validated with the results of standard impulse excitation tests and standard tensile tes...