Vibrations Department
„Freude, Freude treibt die Räder in der großen Weltenuhr“
aus Schillers „Ode an die Freude“
Ever since, load-carrying structures were required to be highly functional, cost efficient and environmentally compatible. Likewise, this applies to civil and mechanical engineering as well as to aerospace.
New composite materials, steady increase of computer performance and miniaturisation of sensors and electronics decisively influence the development trends for future load-carrying structures. Therefore, these structures will be multifunctional lightweight and durable.
The Institute of Structural Analysis at Leibniz Universität Hannover aims at these strategic objectives. Its research is focused on the areas of vibrations and composites.
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Efficient Computational Methods for Stochastic Engineering Dynamics
Mini-Symposium at EURODYN 2020, XI International Conference on Structural Dynamics, 22-24 June 2020, Athens, Greece.
The proper treatment of uncertainties is a fundamental prerequisite for determining reliable system response and reliability estimates. Considering the complexity of real-world engineering problems, potent mathematical tools are employed for sophisticated modeling of the excitations and the associated engineering systems. Nonlinearities, hysteresis, joint time-frequency representations, as well as generalized/fractional calculus are expected to raise the complexity of the governing equations, whereas the consideration of stochasticity leads to the formulation of particularly challenging problems from a computational perspective. The objective of this MS is to present recent advances and emerging cross-disciplinary approaches in the broad field of computational methods for stochastic engineering dynamics with a focus on uncertainty modeling and propagation. Further, this MS intends to provide a forum for a fruitful exchange of ideas and interaction among diverse technical and scientific disciplines. Specific contributions related both to fundamental research and to engineering applications of computational stochastic dynamics and signal processing methodologies are welcome. A non-exhaustive list includes joint time-frequency analysis tools, sparse representations and, stochastic/fractional calculus modeling and applications, nonlinear stochastic dynamics, stochastic model/dimension reduction techniques, Monte Carlo simulation methods, and risk/reliability assessment applications.
For more information, please refer to the website of EURODYN 2020.
