Description
Inverse Problems are found in many areas of engineering mechanics and there are many successful applications e.g. in non-destructive testing and characterization of material properties by ultrasonic or X-ray techniques, thermography, etc. Generally speaking, inverse problems are concerned with the determination of the input and the characteristics of a system, given certain aspects of its output. Mathematically, such problems are ill-posed and have to be overcome through development of new computational schemes, regularization techniques, objective functionals, and experimental procedures.
This volume contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics (ISIP2001), held in February of 2001 in Nagano, Japan, where recent development in inverse problems in engineering mechanics and related topics were discussed.
The following general areas in inverse problems in engineering mechanics were the subjects of the ISIP2001: mathematical and computational aspects of inverse problems, parameter or system identification, shape determination, sensitivity analysis, optimization, material property characterization, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, elastodynamic inverse problems, thermal inverse problems, and other engineering applications. These papers can provide a state-of-the-art review of the research on inverse problems in engineering mechanics.
Readership
For researchers and engineers interested in inverse problems in engineering mechanics.
Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics III, 1st Edition
Chapter headings. Selected papers.
Inverse Thermal Problems. Simultaneous estimation of thermophysical properties and heat and mass transfer
coefficients of a drying body (G.H. Kanevce
et al.). Solution of some inverse heat conduction problems by the dynamic programming filter and BEM (W. Chen, Masa. Tanaka). The time-to-arrival problem for reconstruction of multidimensional heat flux
(R. Bialecki
et al.).
Boundary Data and Parameters Identification. Solution to shape optimization problems of continua on thermal elastic deformation (H. Azegami
et al.). Alternating boundary element inversion scheme for solving inverse boundary value problem from noisy data and its regularization (S. Kubo
et al.). Solution of inverse geometry problems using Bezier splines and sensitivity coefficients (I. Nowak
et al.). Identification of boundary conditions by iterative analyses of suitably refined subdomains at biomaterials interfaces (P. Vena, R. Contro).
Damage or Defect Detection. Three dimensional shape reconstruction of defects from measured backscattering
waveforms (M. Yamada
et al.). Modeling of grain pullout in fatigued polycrystalline alumina (M.T. Kokaly
et al.).
Structural damage identification of frame model based on filtering algorithm (R. Endo
et al.).
Inverse Problems in Solid Mechanics. Parameters identification of an elastic plate subjected to dynamic loading by inverse analysis using BEM and Kalman filter (Masa. Tanaka
et al.). A parameter identification method using observational boundary conditions and wavelet transform (T. Ohkami, T. Uchida). Stress distribution within granular body (A. Matsuoka
et al.).
Numerical and Computational Algorithms. A variational approach for finding the source function of the wave equation
(S. Tobe, K. Shirota).
Ill-posed problems and a priori information (A. Yagola
et al.).
A parameter estimation problem and its regularization by the conjugate gradient method (R. Plato).
Nonlinear inverse problems of vibrational spectroscopy
(G. Kuramshina
et al.).
Applications of Computational Algorithms. Construction of neural network using cluster analysis and Voronoi diagram (K. Amaya
et al.). Inversion method using spectral decomposition of Green's function
(M. Hori, K. Oguni). Application of stress inversion method to develop crustal deformation monitor of Japanese Islands (M. Hori
et al.).
Inverse Problems in Aeronautics and Fluid Dynamics. The application of modified output error method on ALFLEX flight data (Y. Koyama, F. Imado). Sensitivity of aerodynamic optimization to parameterized target functions
(M. Klein, H. Sobieczky).
Using the gasdynamic knowledge base for aerodynamic design and optimization in the sonic speed regime (M. Trenker, H. Sobieczky). Design of a cascade airfoil shape using the discretized Navier-Stokes equations (Y. Horibata).
Inverse Problems in Electromagnetics.
On identification of magnetic sources in materials (H. Igarashi, T. Honma). 3D electric impedance prospecting simulation based on the dual reciprocity boundary element modelling (T. Horikane
et al.).
