Welcome to inverse problems in engineering
Welcome to inverse problems in engineering
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DOI:
10.1080/174159794088027568
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发表时间:
1994-10
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
G. Dulikravich
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作者:
G. Dulikravich
Much of traditional engineering has been concerned with analysing the behaviour of systems, interpreted in a broad sense. Typical engineering problems of the traditional type are: what happens to (stress, thermal, optical, electromagnetic) waves when they pass through a medium, or meet obstacles? What is the effect of a crack on the strength of a structure? How does a structure respond to a force? What is the strength of a composite material?During the past two decades it has become increasingly apparent that the problems which actually arise in industrial and academic engineering do not fit into the traditional mould. In the new problems, the roles of known and unknown quantities have been changed, often being reversed. Thus instead of having given a medium and being asked to find how a disturbance is affected as it passes through it, we know what happens to the disturbance and wish to use the information to analyse the medium. These changes in roles have led to the formulation of new disciplines: x-ray, optical, thermal or borehole tomography; shape optimisation in acoustics, aerodynamics or electromagnetism; detection of cracks and obstacles; finite element model updating; material modelling; etc. These, and the other related disciplines, have come to be grouped under the general title Inverse Problems. This journal is concerned with the study of such problems, as they arise in engineering, hence the title.