SEMINAR: 1/25/11 Senior Seminar Announcement - Dr. Stefano Gabriele from Rome Italy is Speaker - 2PM in Boca - VC to SeaTech

["Barbara Larkin" <blarkin@fau.edu>]

 

 

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Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Computer Science

OME Seminar Announcement – EOC4939-Senior Seminar

Tuesday, January 25, 2011 from 2:00 PM-2:50 PM

Originating at EG-187 (Boca) and Video Conferenced to ST-250 (SeaTech Auditorium)

(Note change in origination campus for this presentation only)

 

Presenter:        Dr. Stefano Gabriele

                              University “Roma Tre”, Rome, Italy

                              Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering

                               Florida Atlantic University

                                               

Presentation:   “Interval admissibility and updating for mechanical and civil engineering structures”

 

 

Abstract:

 

The evaluation of the models admissibility is nowadays becoming more and more important

to perform reliable engineering computations, most of all when a model has to represent an

existing structure whose experimental behaviour is known in certain circumstances. In this case

the model admissibility can be addressed by the comparison of the model response versus the

measured responses. If this comparison is not satisfactory then the model needs to be reviewed. 

When the revision involves the model parameters, “model updating” procedures are generally

followed and the problem is usually solved by optimization approaches.    In this seminar a

methodology (Interval Intersection Method - INTIM) is presented to re-formulate the updating

problem in the interval space. The interval space is here intended in the sense of interval analysis.

The admissibility test, based on interval concepts, is the core of the INTIM method and can be

applied provided that some properties of the interval evaluation of the model are met.

These properties, together with the admissibility and the INTIM algorithm are discussed in

the seminar. Numerical end experimental examples are presented to show the method 

capabilities in presence of both modelling and measurements uncertainties.

 

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BARBARA A. LARKIN Program Assistant Dept of Ocean & Mechanical Engineering FAU - SeaTech Campus 101 N. Beach Road Dania Beach, FL 33004 Phone: (954) 924-7001 Fax: (954) 924-7007 Email: blarkin@fau.edu

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