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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Douglas E. Adams, West Lafayette, IN (US);
David Joseph Koester, Lafayette, IN (US);
Sara Underwood, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventors:
Douglas E. Adams, West Lafayette, IN (US);
David Joseph Koester, Lafayette, IN (US);
Sara Underwood, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignee:
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 29/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for exciting a structure and determining its structural integrity. In particular, methods of nonlinear analysis are used to compare first and second response datasets, each dataset resulting from a different excitation amplitude that the other dataset.