ABSTRACT

Ill-posedness. Regularization. Stability. Uniqueness. To many engineers, the language of inverse analysis projects a mysterious and frightening image, an image made even more intimidating by the highly mathematical nature of most texts on the subject. But the truth is that given a sound experimental strategy, most inverse engineering problems can b

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|44 pages

1A Simple Example: A Single Bar

chapter 3|22 pages

Regularization for Ill-Posed Problems

chapter 4|30 pages

Conventional Optimization Techniques

chapter 5|68 pages

Genetic Algorithms

chapter 6|20 pages

Neural Networks

chapter 7|28 pages

Inverse Identification of Impact Loads

chapter 12|24 pages

Inverse Detection of Flaws in Structures

chapter 13|64 pages

Other Applications