Inverse Dyanmic Problems



Key words: Inverse dynamic problems, dynamic programming filter, regularization, measurement error, measurement type, empirical data processing, element dynamic programming filter, dual reciprocity BEM (DRBEM), elastodynamics, heat conduction


 

Inverse problems are concerned with the estimations of system properties or input forcing terms from system behaviours. Reversely, classical direct problems involve the analysis of the behaviours from the input forcing terms and system properties. In recent years inverse dynamic problems have received increasing attention due to a broad range of engineering necessity. In general, the solution of the inverse dynamic problem is far more difficult than the direct problem due to some degree of noise in the measurement data. In other words, the inverse solution is extremely sensitive to measurement errors, namely, the ill-posed nature of the inverse problem. In compared with direct problems, research of inverse dynamic problems is much less reported in literature, especially for inverse elastodynamic problem. There are several methods available now to stabilize and estimate the inverse solutions of dynamic problem. Among them, the dynamic programming filter (DPF) with regularization, introduced recently by Trujillo and Busby, is a very competitive technique. The strengths of this approach lie in the mathematical simplicity, easy to program and its great flexibility in the type, number and location of measurements and unknown excitation sources. Our studies involve the combination of this technique and boundary element method to estimation of inverse elastodynamic and heat conduction problems and further improving its computational efficiency. On the other hand, recent work also concerns smoothing and differentiating empirical data by newly-developed element dynamic programming filter (EDPF). The following outlines some recent advances:

#1: The coupling application of the dual reciprocity BEM (DRBEM) and dynamic programming filter with regularization was first presented to solve inverse elastodynamic problems. The affect of noise level, regularization parameter, and measurement and input force types on the estimation was investigated. The study showed that the combined method is accurate, robust and generally applicable. It was found that the strategy is insensitive to measurement errors and can give good estimate even using heavily noisy data. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use the DRBEM combined with dynamic programming filter to handle the inverse problems.

#2: One of the key shortcomings in the existing dynamic programming filter is to require high computational effort for large systems over a long history. Recently, we proposed an element (sequent) dynamic programming filter to considerably reduce computational cost without the loss of accuracy in general.

#3: It was found that element dynamic programming filter performs very well in smoothing and differentiating empirical data with great reduction in computing effort. Further numerical experiments are still under way.


Related Publications

 

Journals

  1. M. Tanaka and W. Chen, Dual reciprocity BEM and dynamic programming filter for inverse elastodynamic problems, Transactions of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, 2, 2000.
  2. W. Chen and M. Tanaka, "Reducing computing effort in dynamic programming filter for inverse problem", (in preparation).

Proceedings

  1. M. Tanaka and W. Chen, "Identification of elastodynamic load using DRBEM and dynamic programming filter", International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics 2000, Mar. 2000, Nagano, Japan.

 

  1. M. Tanaka and W. Chen, "DRBEM and dynamic programming filter for inverse elastodynamic problems", Proceedings of Japan Computational Engineering Conference, Vol.5, 2000, Tokyo, Japan..

 

  1. M. Tanaka and W. Chen, "Dual reciprocity BEM solution of an inverse heat conduction boundary problem", JSME conference on thermoelastic dynamic problems, August. 2000, Nagoya, Japan.

 

  1. W. Chen and M. Tanaka, Solution of some inverse heat conduction problems by the dynamic programming filter and BEM, International Symposium on Inverse Problems in Engineering Mechanics 2001, 23-28, Feb. 2001, Nagano, Japan.




Projects

  1. JSPS (Japan): "A combined use of the differential quadrature and boundary element methods" 1998, 10-2000, 9 (Postdoctoral research fellow).




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