Structural Health Monitoring and System Identification Research Group

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department - Northeastern University

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Bernal D. (in press). "Localization of damage from the null space of changes in     the transfer matrix”, Journal of the American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA).

2. Tang, G. Alshawabkeh, A. and Bernal D. (in press). “A semi-analytical time integration for numerical simulation of transient groundwater flow in confined aquifer", Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, ASCE.

 3. Bernal, D. Hernandez, E. (2006). “A data driven methodology for assessing the post-earthquake health of building systems”, Structural Design of Tall buildings, Vol.15 pp.21-34.

4. Bernal D. (2006). "Flexibility-based damage localization from stochastic realization results”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.132, No.6. pp.651-658.

5. Bernal D. (2005). "Closely spaced roots and defectiveness in second order systems”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.131, No.3, pp.276-281.

 6. Bernal D. (2004). "Modal scaling from known mass perturbations”, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, No.9, pp.1083-1088.

 7. Bernal D. and Gunes (2004). "A flexibility based approach for damage characterization: A benchmark application", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, pp-61-70.

  8. Bernal D. and Beck J. (2004). "Preface to the Special Issue on Phase I of the IASC-ASCE Structural Health Monitoring Benchmark", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.130, pp-1-2.

9. Bernal D. (2002). "Load vectors for damage localization", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol.128, No.1, pp.7-14.

 10. Beck J. and Bernal D. (2001). “A benchmark problem for structural health monitoring”, Experimental Techniques, Vol.24, No.3. pp. 23-41.

 

Conference Papers

1.      Bernal D. (2006). “Damage localization from the null space of the transfer matrix”, Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis Mo, on CD.

2.      Hernandez E. and Bernal D. (2006). “An observer based approach for model updating”, Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis, Mo, on CD.

3.      Bernal D. and Tigli O. (2006). “On the analytical expansion of transfer matrices”, Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis, Mo, on CD.

4.      Zonta D. and Bernal D. (2006). “Strain-based approaches for damage localization in civil structures”, Proc. XXIV International Modal Analysis Conference, Saint Louis, Mo, on CD.

5.      Bernal D. (2005). “A null space approach for damage localization in systems identified from operational or ambient vibration data”, Proc., 5th International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.133-141.

6.      Bernal D. and Hernandez E. (2005). “A residual approach for identifying damage induced by earthquakes”, Proc., 5th International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.200-206.

7.      Bernal D. and Hernandez E. (2005). “Identification of damage induced by earthquakes”, Proc. XXIII International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL, on CD.

8.      Gunes, B. and Bernal, D.  (2004). "A data-driven approach for earthquake damage detection," Proc., 6th International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering, vol.1, pp. 364-373. Bogazici University, İstanbul, Turkey

9.      Bernal D. O’Reilly E. and Reyes Madera L. (2004). “Some novel aspects of a seismic code proposal for the Dominican Republic”, Proc., 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, on CD.

10.  Bernal D. and Hernandez Eric (2004). "A data driven-approach to identify damage induced by earthquakes", Proc., 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, on CD.

11.  Gao Y. Spencer B., and Bernal D. (2004). "Experimental verification of the damage load vector method", Proc., International Symposium on Smart Structure Technology, Hawaii, on CD.

12.  Bernal D. (2003). “A Flexibility Based Approach for the characterization of damage – Application to Phase II of the IASC-ASCE benchmark study”. Proc. XXI International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL, on CD.

13.  Bernal D. and DeStefano (2003). “Diagnosis of structural damage from non-stationary output-only measurements” Proc. 5th Damage Assessment of Structures, Southampton, UK, pp.331-338.

14.  Bernal D. (2003). “The IASC-ASCE benchmark study in SHM: Some analytical developments by the NU group, CALTRANS Workshop, University of California at San Diego.

15.  Bernal D. Dyke S. and Beck J. (2002). “Phase II of the IASC-ASCE benchmark study on SHM” Proc., 15th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Columbia University, on CD.

16.  Bernal D. and Gunes B. (2002). “Damage localization in output only systems: A flexibility based approach”, Orlando, Proc., XX International Modal Analysis Conference, pp.1185-1191.

17.  Bernal D. (2002). “A flexibility based damage characterization for Phase II of the ASCE benchmark study”, ” Proc., 15th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Columbia University, on CD.

18.  Bernal D. (2002). “A flexibility based approach for damage localization”. Proc., 3rd World Conference on Structural Control, Como, Italy, on CD.

19.  Bernal D. (2002). “Phase II of the ASCE benchmark study-performance of the DLV approach”, Proc., 2nd International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.161-168.

20.  Bernal D. (2002). “Detection and localization of damage induced by earthquakes”. Proc., 1st International Conference on the Reduction of seismic Risk in the Caribbean, Santiago, Dom. Rep, on CD (in Spanish).

21.  Bernal D. (2001). “A subspace approach for the localization of damage in stochastic systems”, Proc., 3rd International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.899-908.

 

22.  Bernal D. and Gunes B. (2001). “A flexibility-based approach for the localization and quantification of damage: Application in a benchmark structure”, Proc., 3rd International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.680-689.

23.  Dyke, S, Bernal D., Beck J. and Ventura C. (2001). “An experimental benchmark problem in structural health monitoring”, Proc., 3rd International Workshop in Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford CRC press. pp.488 - 497.

24.  Bernal, D and Levy, A. (2001) "Damage localization in plates using DLVs", Proc., XIX International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, pp-1205-1211.

25.  Bernal D. (2000). " Extracting flexibility matrices from state-space realizations", Proc., COST F3, Madrid, Spain, pp.127-135

26.  Bernal D. (2000). "Damage localization using load vectors", Proc., COST F3, Madrid, Spain, pp.223-231.

27.  Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (2000). "Extraction of second order system matrices from state-space realizations", Proc., 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, on CD.

28.  Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (2000). "An examination of instantaneous frequency as a damage detection tool", Proc.,14th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, on CD.

29.  Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (2000). "Observer/Kalman and subspace identification of the UBC Benchmark Structural Model", Proc., 14th Engineering Mechanics Conference, Austin, TX, on CD.

30.  Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (2000). "Performance of an observer state-space identification in the presence of mild nonlinearities", Proc., 2000 American Control Conference, Chicago, Illinois, vol.2, pp.986-990.

31.  Bernal, D. and Gunes, B. (1999). "Identification of system matrices from a minimum order state-space realization." Proc., XII Mexican Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Morelia, Mich., Mexico, pp.639-648.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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