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- A hybrid procedure to identify the optimal stiffness coefficients of elastically restrained beamsPublication . Silva, Tiago Alexandre Narciso da; Loja, Amélia; Maia, Nuno; Barbosa, JoaquimThe formulation of a bending vibration problem of an elastically restrained Bernoulli-Euler beam carrying a finite number of concentrated elements along its length is presented. In this study, the authors exploit the application of the differential evolution optimization technique to identify the torsional stiffness properties of the elastic supports of a Bernoulli-Euler beam. This hybrid strategy allows the determination of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of continuous beams, taking into account the effect of attached concentrated masses and rotational inertias, followed by a reconciliation step between the theoretical model results and the experimental ones. The proposed optimal identification of the elastic support parameters is computationally demanding if the exact eigenproblem solving is considered. Hence, the use of a Gaussian process regression as a meta-model is addressed. An experimental application is used in order to assess the accuracy of the estimated parameters throughout the comparison of the experimentally obtained natural frequency, from impact tests, and the correspondent computed eigenfrequency.
- Adaptive empirical distributions in the framework of inverse problemsPublication . Silva, Tiago; Loja, Amélia; Carvalho, Alda; Maia, Nuno. M.; Barbosa, JoaquimThis article presents an innovative framework regarding an inverse problem. One presents the extension of a global optimization algorithm to estimate not only an optimal set of modeling parameters, but also their optimal distributions. Regarding its characteristics, differential evolution algorithm is used to demonstrate this extension, although other population-based algorithms may be considered. The adaptive empirical distributions algorithm is here introduced for the same purpose. Both schemes rely on the minimization of the dissimilarity between the empirical cumulative distribution functions of two data sets, using a goodness-of-fit test to evaluate their resemblance.