Topics in Modal Analysis II, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, is the sixth volume of six from the Conference and brings together 65 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:

Aerospace
Acoustics
Energy Harvesting
Shock and Vibration
Finite Element
Structural Health Monitoring
Biodynamics
Experimental Techniques
Damage Detection
Rotating Machinery
Sports Equipment Dynamics
Aircraft/Aerospace

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Multibody Dynamic Simulation of the Lunar Landing.- Experimental and Numerical Approaches on Behavior of GLARE 5 Beams: Influences of Thickness and Stacking Sequence.- A Spectrally Preconditioned Iterative Reduced Correction Algorithm for Vibro-acoustic Problems.- Numerical and Experimental Study of Local Cell Resonators to Obtain Low-frequency Vibrational Stopbands in Periodic Lightweight Structures.- Identification of material parameters in Biot's model by homogenization method.- Piezoaeroelastic Typical Section for Wind Energy Harvesting.- Nonlinear Testing and Models Comparison of Magneto-mechanical Energy Scavengers.- A Closed Form Solution to the Early-time Underwater Explosion (UNDEX) Response of a Rectangular Air-backed Ship Hull Panel.- Passive Vibration Isolation and Absorber System for Earth Imaging From the International Space Station (ISS).- Pseudovelocity Modal Stress Velocity Proportionality.- Numerical Modeling of One-dimensional Wave Propagation in Non-homogeneous Materials.- Stiffness and Damping Characterisation for a Hydraulic Engine Mount.- Characterization of Bio-inspired Synthetic Hair Cell Sensors.- Comparison of Noise Floor of Various Torsional Vibration Sensors.- Identification of Wheel-rail Contact Forces Based on Strain Measurement and Finite Element Model of the Rolling Wheel.- Modeshapes Recognition Using Fourier Descriptors: A Simple SHM Example.- Fuzzy Cluster Analysis Methods Applied to Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring for Damage Classification.- Nonlinear Structural Identification of a Three-story Infilled Frame Using Instantaneous Modal Parameters.- Blade Bearing Friction Estimation of Operating Wind Turbines.- 3D Motion Analysis of Cycling Biodynamics for Setup, Efficency and Prevention of Insuries.- Designing an Experiment Inspired by Cochlea for Travelling Waves Observation.- In Vivo Measurement of the Human Thorax and Abdomen Surface Using.- Laser Vibrometry : A new Diagnostic Tool?.- Use of Non Contact Radar Techniques to Dynamic Measurement Purposes.- Selection of Reference Locations for Modal Testing.- Evaluation of a Long Term Viable Dynamic Data Archive Format.- Using High-Speed Stereophotogrammetry Techniques to Extract Shape Information from Wind Turbine/Rotor Operating Data.- Surface Stitching of a Wind Turbine Blade Using Digital Image Correlation.- Modal Testing Using Tracking-Interferometers.- A Scenario-Based Damage Identification Framework.- Bridge Scour Assessment Using Curvature of Horizontally Displaced Mode Shapes.- Environmental Effects on Torsional Vibration Feature Health Monitoring.- Experimental Damage Diagnosis of a Model Three-story Spatial Frame.- Separation of Sine and Random Components From Vibration Measurements.- Post-earthquake Damage Detection in Instrumented Buildings Using Identified Dissipated Energy.- Ultrasonic Vibration Method for Damage Detection in Composite Aircraft Components.- Reliability of Dynamically Measured Flexibility Matrix on Damage Detection of Frame Structures.- Wavelet Based Mode Shape Analysis for Damage Detection.- Application for FE Model Updating for Damage Assessment of FRP Composite Beam Structure.- An Examination of some Aspects of Factor Analysis in Damage Detection.- The Use of Continuous System Identification for Evaluation of Concrete E-modulus Evolution: Laboratory and Field Applications.- Temperature Effect on Ballistic Impact of Woven Graphite/Epoxy Composites.- Spatial Noise Component Identification Based on Different Vibro-acoustic Data Sets.- Improving Test rig Performance Using Passive Components.- Continuous Scanning LDV by Signal Re-sampling Method: A new Signal Processing Approach.- Design of High Impedance Test rig for Composite Structures Vibration Measurements.- Sensor nodes for the dynamic assessment of alpine skis.- The use of Stereo-photogrammetry to Precisely Determine 3D-positions, Motions and Deformations on Sports Equipment.- Experimental Assessment of Bobsleigh Dynamics and Ice-skate Contact Forces.- Instrumented rowing machine for optimized training.- An Experimental Study of Climbers Performances Based on Hand-grip Force Measurement.- Structural Analysis of the Effects of Wing Payload Pods on Small UAS.- Response of Nuclear Containment Structure to Aircraft Crash.- A Novel Modal Combination Rule under Multi-Component Ground Motion.- A Dynamic Model Tailored to Flexible Launch Vehicle Umbilical Analysis.- A Novel Optimization Strategy for Command Shaping Control.- Sensitivities of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors from Complex Perturbations.- A Review of Uncertainty Quantification of Estimation of Frequency Response Functions.- Variability Improvement of Key Inaccurate Node Groups VIKING.- A Reduced Model Approximation Approach Using Model Updating Methodologies.- Passive Noise Reduction Using the Modally Enhanced Dynamic Absorber.- The Benefits of Duffing-type Nonlinearities and Electrical Optimisation of a Randomly Excited Energy Harvester.