...Shih-Hsun Yin; Chung-Yu Tang This paper presents a computational study on a new method of detecting multiple simultaneous damages in a cable-stayed bridge by use of the analysis of the vertical dynamic response of a vehicle passing the bridge. First, the study uses a finite-element method...

...Danilo Bruneli Reis; Rodrigo Nicoletti The noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) performance of passenger vehicles strongly depends on the fluid-structure interaction between the air in the vehicle cavity and the sheet metal structure of the vehicle. Most of the noise and vibration problems related...

... and the introduction of nonlinear effects and parametric studies in subsequent analyses. The new procedure is demonstrated with the structural model of a typical vehicle with four major substructures and a relatively large number of interface coordinates. High accuracy is obtained in calculating the natural...

...Ling Yu, Professor; Tommy H. T. Chan, Associate Professor Both the time domain method (TDM) and frequency-time domain method (FTDM) are introduced and modified for the indirect identification of multi-axle vehicle loads from the bending moment responses of bridges. Two solutions to the over...