Vol 49, No 3 (2011)

Table of Contents

1. Numerical modelling of impact fracture of cortical bone tissue using X-FEM PDF
Adel A. Abdel-Wahab, Vadim V. Silberschmidt 599-619
2. Variational principles and natural boundary conditions for multilayered orthotropic graphene sheets undergoing vibrations and based on nonlocal elastic theory PDF
Sarp Adali 621-639
3. Vibration analysis of a trimorph plate for optimised damage mitigation PDF
Akuro Big-Alabo, Matthew P. Cartmell 641-664
4. Model updating in structural dynamics through a confluence algorithm PDF
Maria Chierichetti, Massimo Ruzzene 665-683
5. Efficient and low cost PZT network for detection and localization of damage in low curvature panels PDF
Nicolae Constantin, Stefan Sorohan, Mircea Gavan, Vladimir Raetchi 685-704
6. Exact solutions for free vibrations of a steel-concrete bridge PDF
Luca Della Longa, Antonino Morassi, Anna Rotaris 705-725
7. Scalar and vector time series methods for vibration based damage diagnosis in a scale aircraft skeleton structure PDF
Fotis P. Kopsaftopoulos, Spilios D. Fassois 727-756
8. Energy harvesting in a magnetopiezoelastic system driven by random excitations with uniform and Gaussian distributions PDF
Grzegorz Litak, Marek Borowiec, Michael I. Friswell, Sondipon Adhikari 757-764
9. Dynamic investigation of twist-bend coupling in a wind turbine blade PDF
Marcin Luczak, Simone Manzato, Bart Peeters, Kim Branner, Peter Berring, Maciej Kahsin 765-789
10. Implementation of an active mass driver for increasing damping ratios of the laboratorial model of a building PDF
Carlos Moutinho, Alvaro Cunha, Elsa Caetano 791-806
11. Characteristics of elastic wave propagation in thick beams – when guided waves prevail? PDF
Haikuo Peng, Lin Ye, Guang Meng, Kai Sun, Fucai Li 807-823
12. Performance assessment of selected OMA techniques for dynamic identification of geotechnical systems and closely spaced structural modes PDF
Carlo Rainieri, Giovanni Fabbrocino 825-839
13. Low-velocity impact characteristics of composite plates with shape memory alloy wires PDF
Mi-Sun Rim, Eun-Ho Kim, In Lee, Ik-Hyeon Choi, Seok-Min Ahn, Kyo-Nam Koo, Jae-Sung Bae, Jin-Ho Roh 841-857
14. Piezoelectric controlled noise attenuation of engineering systems PDF
Stefan Ringwelski, Tommy Luft, Ulrich Gabbert 859-878
15. Simulation of wave propagation in damped composite structures with piezoelectric coupling PDF
Rolf T. Schulte, Claus-Peter Fritzen 879-903
16. Detecting nonlinear behaviour using the Volterra series to assess damage in beam-like structures PDF
Cecilia Surace, Romualdo Ruotolo, David Storer 905-926
17. Novel shape memory actuators PDF
Hisaaki Tobushi, Kouji Miyamoto, Yasuhiko Nishimura, Kento Mitsui 927-943