Damage Prognosis: For Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Systems
About this ebook
Taken from lectures given at the Pan American Advanced Studies Institute in Damage Prognosis sponsored by the US National Science Foundation in cooperation with Los Alamos National Laboratories, this book will be essential reading for anyone looking to get to grips with the fundamentals of damage prognosis.
- Presents the 'ground rules' for Damage Prognosis.
- Deals with interdisciplinary topics: rotating machines, aerospace structures, automotive components and civil structures.
- Covers essential technical material: equations, graphs and plots, tables and photographs.
- Offers additional material from the associated workshop on an active web site.
About the author
Charles R. Farrar, MS T-001, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Farrar is President of Los Alamos Dynamics. He is an expert in structural health monitoring and in technologies for detecting changes or damage in complex mechanical systems, ranging from bridges to nuclear weapons. He has authored dozens of papers and conference reports and has served as an editor for the International Journal of Structural Health Monitoring and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Farrar was instrumental in the recent establishment of the joint Engineering Institute for educational collaboration between the Laboratory and the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
Vicente Lopes Junior, Director of the Faculty of Engineering of Ilha Solteira, UNESP, Universidade Estadual de São Paulo, Brazil.
Valder Steffen Junior, Federal University of Uberlandia, School of Mechanical Engineering, Campus Santa Mùnica, Brazil.
