Optimal triaxial sensor placement plays a crucial role in tridimensional modal identification;
however, few studies have been conducted on this topic. In this paper, a holistic approach …

Ultrasonic transducers prepared by a sol–gel composite method have been investigated in
the field of nondestructive testing (NDT). Sol–gel composite materials could be ideal …

The electromechanical impedance (EMI) method, which holds great promise in structural
health monitoring (SHM), is usually treated as a qualitative method. In this work, we …

Abstract The Curie temperature of Pb (Zr, Ti) O 3/Pb (Zr, Ti) O 3 (PZT/PZT) sol–gel
composites was investigated empirically in order to determine the maximum operation …

A computationally efficient gradient-based optimization approach for inverse material
characterization from incomplete system response measurements that can utilize a …

A generally applicable algorithm for the iterative generation of data ensembles to efficiently
create accurate computational mechanics reduced-order models (ROMs) for use in …

A robust approach to nondestructive test (NDT) design for material characterization and
damage identification in solids and structures is presented and numerically evaluated. The …

A novel algorithm for creating a computationally efficient approximation of a system
response that is defined by a boundary value problem is presented. More specifically, the …

A generalized approach for optimal wave propagation-based nondestructive test (NDT)
design for potential applications in damage characterization and other characterization …

Despite great improvements in computing hardware and developments of new
methodologies for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), solving PDEs numerically …