Application of system identification in engineering (Q1210753)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This book contains the lecture notes in mechanical system identification presented in summer 1986 at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM, Udine, Italy). Recent advances on theoretical and practical aspects in this field are included in the volume. The first part of the book is devoted to the fundamentals and survey of system identification in the time domain and in the frequency domain. In this context, for continuous-and discrete-time systems many important problems are analyzed: parameter and state estimation, methods of identification for the case of linear or non-linear mechanical systems etc. A large part is concerned with the balanced state representation and with the basis of acoustic methods used in the analysis and identification of mechanical systems. The second part of the book includes a set of representative applications: identification of structures with elastic or elastic- plastic behaviour, modal parameter identification in civil engineering (including structural damage), estimation of modal quantities and flight mechanics parameters in aerospace and aircraft engineering, system identification in naval engineering and system identification for some dynamical rotor systems. The volume is of interest to mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists and represents a reference book in engineering.