Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics: IUTAM Symposium Tokyo, 1992 [Paperback]

Inverse problems occur in a wide variey of fields. Ingeneral, the inverse problem can be defined as one where oneshould estimate the cause from the result, while the directproblem is concerned with how to obtain the result from thecause. The aim of this symposium was to gather scientistsand researchers in engineering mechanics concerned withinverse problems in order to exchange research result anddevelop computational and experimentalapproaches to solveinverse problems.The contributions in this volume cover the followingsubjects: mathematical and computational aspects of inverseproblems, parameter or system identification, shapedetermination, sensitivity analysis, optimization, materialproperty characterization, ultrasonic nondestructivetesting, elastodynamic inverse problems, thermal inverseproblems, and other miscellaneous engineering applications.List of Contents.- 1 Mathematical Aspects.- On Regularization Methods within System Identification.- New Approaches to the Optimal Regularization.- A Method for Solving Inverse Boundary-Value Problems Using Symbolic Computation.- An Application of the Fuzzy Control for an Ill-posed Problem.- Inverse Filtering for Reverberant Transfer Functions.- 2 Computational Aspects.- Classification of Inverse Problems Arising in Field Problems and Their Treatments.- A Physically Based Method of Experimental Data-Concepts, Formulation and Application to Identification of Residual Stresses.- Inverse Problems for Vibrating Systems in Two and Three Dimensions.- Inverse Spectrum Problems for Block Jacobi Matrix.- Parametric Correction of Finite Element Models Using Modal Tests.- Structural Defect Synthesis Using Noise-Frequency Response Characteristics for Coupled Acoustic-Structural System by Fuzzy Inference Method.- Inverse Problem Solution in Non-destructive Pavement Diagnostics -Computational Aspects.- Inverse Formulation for Incompressible Viscous Two-Dimensional and Axisyl+