The integrations needed to determine beam deflections require the enforcement of the appropriate displacement and rotation boundary conditions (BCs). It is important that we be able to recognize these ...

This course presents the fundamental principles of structural analysis, determination of reactions, internal forces and deflections under the static load conditions. The course is mainly focused to ...

In civil engineering, flexural beams are used to control the effect of vibrations that can cause cracks to appear in surfaces (concrete slabs) and beams. This is particularly important in buildings ...

The characterization of slice properties of electron bunches, such as slice emittance, slice-energy spread and beam-current profile, is very useful in a variety of contexts. In Free-Electron Lasers ...

This study identifies non-homogeneous stiffnesses in a non-destructive manner from simulated noisy measurements of a structural response. The finite element method serves as a discretization for the ...