Safety Evaluation Based on Identification Approaches Related to Time-Variant and Nonlinear Structures

Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods.- Advantages and Disadvantages of Intensity Measurements.- Measurements of Linear and Nonlinear Structures with Distributed Shell Sensors (Distributed Sensing and Identification).- Damage Evolution and Diagnosis in Operating Systems.- Time-Variant Methods in Machinery Diagnostics.- Nonlinear Mechanical Systems, Sinusodia Excitation Signal and Modal Analysis: Theory.- A Damage Localization Algorithm for Nonlinear Structures.- Dynamic Damage Indicators for Composite Based Structures.- Identification of Parameters, III-Posedness and Adaptive Systems.- Estimation of Physical Parameters for Dynamic Processes with Application to Fault Detection of an Industrial Robot.- Detection and Location of Damage Causing Non-linear System Behavior.- Nonlinear Problems in Selectively Sensitive Identification of Structures.- Safety Evaluation of Electric Pylons Using Impulse Testing.- Damage Assessment Through Nonlinear Structural Identification.- The Identification of Non-linear Systems with Statistically Equivalent Polynomial Systems.- Damage Assessment from the Dynamic Response of Deteriorating Structures.- Some Issues in the Identification of Structural Systems Through the Use of Neural Networks.- The Application of Neural Networks to Condition Monitoring of Non-linear Structures.- Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Soft Computing.- Summary and Conclusions.