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Vibration and damage detection in undamaged and cracked circular arches: Experimental and analytical results
No full textThis paper presents the experimental results of the dynamic behaviour of a circular arch in undamaged and several damaged configurations, and compares them with those obtained by means of analytical methods. The damage is introduced in the undamaged arch by operating a notch and is then modelled as a torsion spring of suitable stiffness localised in the damaged cross-section. Good agreement between analytical and experimental results is observed. An identification procedure based on frequency measurements is proposed and validated. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Archi circolari piani integri e danneggiati: rilevazioni sperimentali e modelli analitici
No full textQuesto lavoro si propone di: a) illustrare i parametri modali rilevati sperimentalmente in un arco circolare, sia integro che danneggiato da un intaglio; b) confrontare questi con i valori ottenuti da modelli analitici. Il danno è stato modellato per mezzo di una molla rotazionale di opportuna rigidezza localizzata nella sezione corrispondente all’intaglio. Si è osservata una buona corrispondenza tra le evidenze sperimentali ed i risultati analitici
Analytical and numerical results for vibration analysis of multi-stepped and multi-damaged arches
No full textThis paper investigates the in-plane linear dynamic behaviour of multi-stepped and multi-damaged circular arches under different boundary conditions. Cracked cross-sections are modelled as massless elastic rotational hinges. In damaged configuration, cracks can be located both at the interface between two adjacent portions as well as inside the portion itself. For each arch portion bounded by two cracks, the differential equations of motion have been established considering axial extension, transverse shear effects and rotatory inertia. The equilibrium equations of arch portions are combined in the coupled fundamental system in terms of radial displacement, tangential displacement and rotation. Analytical and numerical solutions for multi-stepped arches, in undamaged as well as in damaged configurations, are proposed. The analytical solution is based on the Euler characteristic exponent procedure involving the roots of characteristic polynomials, while the numerical method is focused on the Generalized Differential Quadrature (GDQ) method and the Generalized Differential Quadrature Element (GDQE) technique. Numerical results are shown in terms of the first 10 analytical and numerical frequencies of multi-stepped and multi-damaged arches with different boundary conditions. Finally, convergence and stability characteristics of the GDQE procedure are investigated. The convergence rate of the natural frequencies is shown to be very fast and the stability of the numerical procedure is very good
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Damage localization in bridges via FRF interpolation method
Full text linkVibration based methods are powerful tools to assess the structural behavior of a bridge. In this paper, the Interpolation Damage Detection Method is used to give an interpretation of frequency response function (FRF) measurements performed on a reinforced concrete single span bridge subject to increasing levels of concentrated damage. The sensitivity of the method is document-ed and discussed with respect to the amount of experimental data available and the severity of the damage. The results are encouraging. They show the ability of the method to correctly detect the damage location in the majority of the scenarios considered and to give quantitative indica-tion of the relative severity of the damage. A comparison with the results obtained by the Modal Curvature Method is also presented
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