Owing to ever-increasing complexity of engineering structures, developing a methodology
for the early detection of defects has become crucial to ensure their long-term safety and …

Vibration-based structural damage detection methods using optimization techniques have
increased extensively in recent decades due to the rapid development of swarm intelligence …

A simulation model can provide insight into the characteristic behaviors of different health
states of an actual system; however, such a simulation cannot account for all complexities in …

The existence of cracks in rotating shafts can lead to failures, which imply economic losses
and security issues. In the last decades, attention has been devoted to this subject leading to …

Computational Intelligence Applied to Inverse Problems in Radiative Transfer Page 1 Antônio
José da Silva Neto José Carlos Becceneri Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho Editors …

Purpose This contribution aims at analyzing the effect of uncertain parameters on the
frequency-domain behavior of a dynamic vibration absorber for the robust optimization that …

In this paper, an investigation regarding the dynamic behavior of a rotating machine
subjected to a base excitation is presented numerically. Regarding aeronautical …

In this contribution, a new optimization strategy called Self-Adaptive Big Bang-Big Crunch
(SA-BB-BC) algorithm is proposed. This methodology consists on the association between …

In optical nano metrology numerical models are used widely for parameter reconstructions.
Using the Bayesian target vector optimization method we fit a finite element numerical model …

Balancing procedures are periodically applied to rotating machines to reduce vibration
amplitudes, thus keeping the system operating within acceptable safety limits. Various …