Abstract Modal parameter estimation of randomly and ambient excited structures using output-only system identification techniques has become a recently essential issue for assessment of engineering structures, structural health monitoring and structural control. A number of mathematical models on the output-only identification techniques have been developed in the time domain, in the frequency ...

This study presents a new frequency domain parameter, Parabolic Spectral Parameter (PSP), for the quantification of the glottal volume velocity waveform. PSP is based on fitting a parabolic function to the low-frequency part of a pitch-synchronously computed spectrum of the estimated glottal flow. PSP gives a single numerical value that describes how the spectral decay of an obtained glottal fl...

This is a new formulation which overcomes many of the numerical analysis problems associated with an old least squared error parameter estimation technique. Overcoming these problems has made this technique feasible for implementation on mini-computer based measurement systems. This technique is not only useful in modal analysis applications for identifying the modal parameters of structures, b...

The frequency modulation sound parameter identification is a complex multimodal optimization problem. This problem is modeled in the form of a cost function that is the sum-squared error between the samples of estimated wave and the samples of real wave. In this research, the authors propose a shuffled particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve this problem. In the shuffled particle swam op...

In this article, we propose an adaptive grid based on mesh equidistribution principle for two-parameter convection-diffusion boundary value problems with continuous and discontinuous data. A numerical algorithm based on an upwind finite difference operator and an appropriate adaptive grid is constructed. Truncation errors are derived for both continuous and discontinuous problems. Parameter uni...

In this work, nonlocal elasticity theory is applied to analyze nonlinear free vibrations of slightly curved multi-walled carbon nanotubes resting on nonlinear Winkler and Pasternak foundations in a thermal and magnetic environment. With the aid of Galerkin decomposition method, the systems of nonlinear partial differential equations are transformed into systems of nonlinear ordinary differentia...