Structural Safety Evaluation Based on System Identification Approaches: Proceedings of the Workshop at Lambrecht/Pfalz

Damage Descriptions and Basic Requirements.- Cracked Cross Section Measurement in Rotating Machinery.- System Identification.- Utilization of Experimental Investigations in the Process of Tower Structures Dynamic Identification.- On the Determination of the Number of Effective Modes from Vibration Test Data.- Structural System Identification from Modal Information.- System Identification Using Nonlinear Structural Models.- Identification of Hysteretic Structural Behaviour from Strong Motion Accelerograms.- Calibration of Nonlinear Constitutive Laws for Elastic-Plastic Analysis in Presence of Creep Strains.- Inelastic Modeling and System Identification.- Identification of Equivalent Linear Systems.- Reliability of an Identification System for Predicting Incipient Capsize Due to Chaotic Rolling Motion of a Ship.- Correlation of Analysis and Test in Modeling of Structures: Assessment and Review.- Localization Techniques.- A Two Stage Identification Approach in Updating the Analytical Model of Buildings.- Interaction between System Identification and Damage Evaluation.- Reliability Based Factor of Safety for Unmanned Spacecrafts.- Parameter Identification for Reliability in Markov Cumulative Damage Processes.- A System Identification Approach to the Detection of Changes in Structural Parameters.- Time Domain Identification of Linear Structures.- Fuzzy Data Processing in Damage Assessment.- Concepts.- A Systems Approach to Fire Safety Engineering.- Experimental Vulnerability Detection in Civil Structures.- The Machinery Vibration and Wear Advancement Identification and Forecasting.- Bridge Inspection by Dynamic Tests and Calculations Dynamic Investigations of Lavant Bridge.- System Identification Approaches in Structural Safety Evaluation.- Structural Damage Assessment Usinga System Identification Technique.- Summary of Workshop Discussion.- Concluding Remarks and Recommendations.