Autonomous Sensor System for Low-Capacity Wind Turbine Blade Vibration Measurement

This paper presents the design, implementation, and validation of an on-blade sensor system for remote vibration measurement for low-capacity wind turbines. The autonomous sensor system was deployed on three wind turbines, with one of them operating in harsh weather conditions in the far south of Chile. The system recorded the acceleration...

Reactivity Monitoring of Accelerator-Driven Nuclear Reactor Systems

This thesis provides a methodology and set-up of a reactivity monitoring tool for Accelerator-Driven Systems (ADS). The reactivity monitoring tool should guarantee the operation of an ADS at a safe margin from criticality. Robustness is assured in different aspects of the monitoring tool: the choice of the measurement techniques, the evaluation...

Modelling the influence of cracking and healing on modal properties of concrete beams

Concrete structures are commonly cracked when in service. To overcome issues arising from cracking, self-healing concrete is being developed. Together with the development of the material, techniques to verify and quantify self-healing are being developed. A number of destructive techniques have been used in the past. It would be beneficial to...

Deformation Analysis of a Hummingbird Inspired MAV Flapping Wing using Digital Image Correlation

Flapping wing micro air vehicles (MAVs) have the advantage of being able to fly at slow speeds and have high maneuverability. The design of a flapping wing MAV inspired by birds presents many technical challenges because birds as natural fliers exhibit higher efficiency than any man made flapping wing structure. Thus, the structure and motion of...

Structural monitoring and modal properties of a real time bridge and lab tests

For understanding the actual state of durability of concrete structures, it is important to know its response due to external loading. This response mainly depends on the actual structural and material properties of the structure, while loaded. Mechanical and chemical degradation are the main mechanisms that may affect these properties with time...

Elements of automated aeroelastic analysis in aircraft preliminary design

Dynamics of the human pelvis: Identification methodology for low back pain diagnosis

This project finds its justification in the vast economic and social impact that musculoskeletal disorders have at a global level. Many cases of low back pain, which is the most relevant disorder among them, remain a mystery as far as their pathology is concerned. The assumption underlying this work is that, for those mysterious cases, the...

Numerical Simulation of Bubble and Droplet Dynamics using Partitioned Solvers

Bubbles and droplets can be simulated as a problem involving Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI). The interface between the liquid and the gas is then conceived as a zero thickness structure. The position of the interface is determined by the equilibrium between surface tension effects and the pressure jump across the interface. Most techniques...

Operational Modal Analysis in the Presence of Harmonic Excitations

The dynamic behavior of structures is a primordial factor determining its structural stability, reliability and lifespan. Therefore, in many advanced engineering applications, it has become essential to predict the dynamics of new designs through simulations, to identify the dynamic characteristics of prototypes and finally to monitor systems in...

Influence of reduction and interpolation methods on the correlation of calculated and measured modal data of a solar array

At Fokker Space and Systems the measured and calculated modal data of an ARA 3-panel-clean-wing were correlated. The number of degrees of freedom (dof's) of the finite element model (FEM) is about 6400 and of the measurement 32. Three methods were used to obtain corresponding dof's namely: 1) the number of dof's of the FEM was reduced with a...