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Original Articles

An inverse solution for reconstruction of the area-moment-of-inertia of a beam using deflection data

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Pages 1155-1174 | Received 14 Sep 2009, Accepted 09 Jul 2011, Published online: 19 Sep 2011

Figures & data

Figure 1. A beam element.

Figure 1. A beam element.

Figure 2. The inverse model.

Figure 2. The inverse model.

Table 1. The displacement results for the direct problem.

Table 2. The three-element inverse model results and their comparison to direct solutions.

Table 3. The four-element inverse model results and their comparison to direct solutions.

Table 4. The deflection data with and without random noise.

Table 5. The actual and inverse model I-values and their relative percent errors.

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