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Modal parameters such as natural frequencies, modal shapes, and the damping ratio are useful to understand structural dynamics of mechanical systems. Modal parameters need to be estimated under operational conditions for use in structural…
In the field of operational modal analysis (OMA), obtained modal information is frequently used to assess the current state of aerospace, mechanical, offshore and civil structures. However, the stochasticity of operational systems and the…
Operational modal analysis (OMA) aims at identifying the modal properties of a structure based on response data of the structure excited by ambient sources. Modal parameters of the ambient vibration structures consist of natural…
Over the last decades, progress in modal analysis has enabled increasingly routine use of modal parameters for applications such as structural health monitoring and finite element model updating. For output-only identification, or…
We revisit the classical, full-fledged Bayesian model averaging (BMA) paradigm to ensemble pre-trained and/or lightly-finetuned foundation models to enhance the classification performance on image and text data. To make BMA tractable under…
Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) is vital for identifying modal parameters under real-world conditions, yet existing methods often face challenges with noise sensitivity and stability. This work introduces NExT-LF, a novel method that…
The current Bayesian FFT algorithm relies on direct differentiation to obtain the posterior covariance matrix (PCM), which is time-consuming, memory-intensive, and hard to code, especially for the multi-setup operational modal analysis…
In full-scale forced vibration tests, the demand often arises to capture high-spatial-resolution mode shapes with limited number of sensors and shakers. Multi-setup experimental modal analysis (EMA) addresses this challenge by roving…
A new stochastic primal--dual algorithm for solving a composite optimization problem is proposed. It is assumed that all the functions/operators that enter the optimization problem are given as statistical expectations. These expectations…
Modal analysis is the process of estimating a system's modal parameters such as its natural frequencies and mode shapes. One application of modal analysis is in structural health monitoring (SHM), where a network of sensors may be used to…
Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) provides essential insights into the structural dynamics of an Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT). In these dynamics, damping is considered an especially important parameter as it governs the magnitude of the…
Modal parameter estimation of operational structures is often a challenging task when confronted with unwanted distortions (outliers) in field measurements. Atypical observations present a problem to operational modal analysis (OMA)…
While existing works about non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have indicated that NOMA can yield a significant performance gain over orthogonal multiple access (OMA) with fixed resource allocation, it is not clear whether such a…
Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) has been widely used to identify structural dynamic properties, including natural frequencies, damping ratios, and mode shapes, for structural integrity assessment. The Poly-reference Least Squares Complex…
This paper considers the problem of minimizing an expectation function over a closed convex set, coupled with a {\color{black} functional or expectation} constraint on either decision variables or problem parameters. We first present a new…
We present the new Orthogonal Polynomials Approximation Algorithm (OPAA), a parallelizable algorithm that estimates probability distributions using functional analytic approach: first, it finds a smooth functional estimate of the…
Model merging offers a scalable alternative to multi-task learning but often yields suboptimal performance on classification tasks. We attribute this degradation to a geometric misalignment between the merged encoder and static…
Researchers often face data fusion problems, where multiple data sources are available, each capturing a distinct subset of variables. While problem formulations typically take the data as given, in practice, data acquisition can be an…
Statistical mechanics is a powerful framework for analyzing optimization yielding analytical results for matching, optimal transport, and other combinatorial problems. However, these methods typically target the zero-temperature limit,…
The estimation of modal parameters from a set of noisy measured data is a highly judgmental task, with user expertise playing a significant role in distinguishing between estimated physical and noise modes of a test-piece. Various methods…