Theoretical development of a dynamic stiffness matrix (DSM) based direct damping matrix identification method is revisited in this paper. This method was proposed to identify both the mechanism and ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, SECTION 6: JOURNAL OF PASSENGER CARS, Part 2 (1995), pp. 2068-2077 (10 pages) This paper presents a model updating method based on experimental receptances. The presented ...

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Princeton's Dr. Jean H. Prévost and Serguei Bagrianski have released a book with World Scientific, entitled, An Introduction to Matrix Structural Analysis and Finite Element Methods. Based on a course ...