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15 - General Engineering
University of Southampton
Identifying joints from measured reflection coefficients in beam-like structures with application to a pipe support
Significance of output:
The failure of mechanical joints is a threat to commercial operations and human safety in many engineering systems, not least piping systems used in the energy industry, e.g. Pipeline and Gas Journal, Sep 2010, 237(9), www.pipelineandgasjournal.com/identifying-pipe-joints-low-mechanical-properties. The wave-based method presented in this paper provides a new approach to quantifying the mechanical flexibility of a single joint, and hence its integrity, in built-up systems. The approach is inherently more robust than current modal methods which necessarily consider all joints in the system simultaneously. Our method has been developed further by other researchers to include a more sophisticated joint model (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2012.09.026)
