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Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics, Volume 6. Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 27 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on Structural Health Monitoring, High Intensity Noise Generation and other Special Topics.

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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Forming Limit Diagram for AA3105.- Multi-field Microphone - When the Sound Field is Unknown.- Separating Three Sources of Changes in Structural Health Monitoring.- Structural Damage Identification With Various Uncertainties.- Excitation Techniques for Testing Bike Vibration Transmission in the Laboratory.- Damage Detection Using Blind Source Separation Techniques.- Application of Image Sensing to Motion Study of High-voltage Switchgear.- CAE Based Approach to Understand a Behavior of Vibro-acoustic System.- Verification of Coverage of Inverse-numerical Acoustic Analysis.- Prototype WSN Platform for Performing Dynamic Monitoring of Civil Engineering Structures.- Damage Identification in CRFP Laminates using a Statistical Method.- High Intensity Noise Generation for Extremely Large Reverberant Room Test Applications.- Human Induced Dynamic Loads Estimation Based on Body Motion.- In the Field Validation of Human Induced Loads Measuring Technique.- Optimal Selection of Artificial Boundary Conditions for Model Update and Damage Detection.- Use of Damping Solution for Acceleration Measurements in High Vibration Environments.- Efficiency Comparison of CMS Vibroacoustic Formulations for Uncertain Damped Problems.- Nonlinear Parameteric Health Monitoring for Vibrating Structures Under Non-stationary Excitation.- Displacement Based Approach for a Robust Operational Modal Analysis.- Effect of Systematic FRF Errors on Matrix Inversion Based Vibro-acoustic Analysis Methods.- Peri-prosthetic Fracture Vibration Testing.- Performance Comparison of Fiber Optic Tips in Interferometric Displacement Measurements.- Development of Polymer ´Chips´ Used in Medical Diagnostics.- Acoustic Fluid-Structure Interaction of Cars and Ships.- The Testing Behind the Test Facility: The Acoustic Design of the NASA Glenn Research Center´s World-class Reverberant Acoustic Test Facility.- Detection of Damage in Space Frame Structures With Filleted L-shaped Beams and Bolted Joints Using Changes in Natural Frequencies.- Steels for Caribbean Steel Drums

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Dr. Tom Proulx is the Executive Director of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

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