Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting & Dynamic Environments Testing including papers on:

• Alternative Sensing & Acquisition

• Active Controls

• Instrumentation

• Aircraft/Aerospace & Aerospace Testing Techniques

• Energy Harvesting

  Inhalt
  Chapter1: Historical Review of Building Block Approach in Validation for Human Space Flight.- Chapter2: Analytically Investigating Impedence-Matching Test Fixtures.- Chapter3: Harmonic Forcing of Damped Non-homogeneous Elastic Rods.- Chapter4: Effects of Multi-Axial versus Single-Axial Excitation of Jointed Systems.- Chapter5: Quantifying the Effect of Component Inertial Properties on System Level Dynamics.- Chapter6: A Method for Determining Impact Force for Single and Tri Axis Resonant Plate Shock Simulations.- Chapter7: Non-stationarity and non-Gaussianity in Vibration Fatigue.- Chapter8: Use of Topology Optimization to Design Shock and Vibration Test Fixtures.- Chapter9: Electromechanical Impedance Method for Applications in Boundary Condition Replication.- Chapter10: Latest Design Trends in Modal Accelerometers for Aircraft Ground Vibration Testing.- Chapter11: Test-Based Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation using Hurty/Craig-Bampton Substructure Representations.- Chapter12: Accumulated Lifetimes in Single-Axis Vibration Testing.- Chapter13: Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Mistakes in a Structural Dynamic Facility and How to Learn from Them.- Chapter14: Adaptive Multi-modal Tuned Mass Dampers Based on Shape Memory Alloys: Design and Validation.- Chapter15: Application of Transfer Path Analysis Techniques to the Boundary Condition Challenge Problem.- Chapter16: Testing Summary for the Box Assembly with Removable Component Structure.- Chapter17: Comparison of Multi-Axis Testing of the BARC Structure with Varying Boundary Conditions.- Chapter18: Strategies for Shaker Placement for Impedance-Matched Multi-Axis Testing.- Chapter19: Comparison of Vibration Comfort Criteria by Controlled Field Tests on An Existing Long-span Floor.- Chapter20: Flight Environments Demonstrator: Part III Sensitivity of Expansion to Model Accuracy.- Chapter21: Force Estimation Methods and Numerical Corrections for IMMAT Test Design.- Chapter22: Input Signal Synthesis for Open-loop Multiple-input/Multiple-output Testing.- Chapter23: Combining Test and Simulation to Tackle the Challenges Derived from Boundary Conditions Mismatches in Environmental Testing.- Chapter24: Defining Component Environments and Margin through Zemblanic Consideration of Function Spaces.- Chapter25: European Service Module - Structural Test Article (E-STA) Building Block Test Approach and Model Correlation Observations.- Chapter26: Control of Plate Vibrations with Artificial Neural Networks and Piezoelectricity.- Chapter27: Comparing Fixed-Base and Shaker Table Model Correlation Methods using Jim Beam.- Chapter28: Vibration Reduction for Camera Systems Onboard Small Unmanned Aircraft.- Chapter29: Flight Environments Demonstrator: Part I Experiment Design & Test Planning.- Chapter30: Replicating Responses: Environmental Testing of Unknown Boundary Conditions.- Chapter31: An Approach to Component Testing: An Analytical Study.- Chapter32: Issues in Laboratory Simulation of Field Vibration Data: Experimental Results of a Typical Structure.- Chapter33: Clamping Force Effects on the Performance of Mechanically Attached Piezoelectric Transducers for Impedance-Based NDE.- Chapter34: Data Based Modeling of Aero Engine Vibration Responses.- Chapter35: Experimental Mode Verification (EMV) using Left-Hand Eigenvectors.- Chapter36: Understanding Multi-Axis Resonant Plate Shock Response.- Chapter37: Generating Anechoic Traveling Wave in Beams with Various Boundary Conditions.- Chapter38: Flexible Data Acquisition System Design and Architecture for a Multi-force Testing Facility.- Chapter39: Monitoring of Environmental and Sound-induced Vibrations on Artistic Stained Glasses.- Chapter40: Sensitivity Study of BARC Assembly.