Assoc Prof Dr Pelin GUNDES BAKIR Pelin Gundes

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pelin GUNDES BAKIR Pelin Gundes Bakir is a Professor of Structural Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering of Istanbul Technical University. She has recieved her Diploma (DIC) and Masters degrees from the Civil Engineering Department of Imperial College, University of London and obtained her Ph. D in Structural Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow in Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium from 2003 to 2006. She is the author of 17 refereed international journal papers, 4 books and more than 35 international conference papers. Her research interests cover damage detection by vibration monitoring, finite element model updating, inverse problems in mechanics, optimization, earthquake engineering and nonlinear dynamic analysis. Pelin Gundes is in the Editorial Boards of the Acoustics Journal (2007 -), Atmospheric Science Journal (2007 -), and the SAMPE Journal of Advanced Materials (2003 -2006). Technische Universitat Berlin Invitation to the Erasmus Course ‘Vibration based structural health monitoring’ On June 23 -28, 2008 by Prof. Dr. Pelin GÜNDEŞ BAKIR Department of Civil Engineering Istanbul Technical University Turkey

ERASMUS Teaching Course June 23 -26, 2008 Contents Lecture 1 Objectives for vibration monitoring, monitoring earthquake shaking in buildings, steps in instrumenting a structure, selection and installation of instruments, maintenance, dynamic characteristics of linear systems, SDOF systems, MDOF systems, impulse response function, frequency response function Lecture 2 Digital signal processing, signal types, typical signal processing operations, Fourier series expansion Lecture 3 Fourier Transforms, Discrete Fourier Transform, Fast Fourier Transform Lecture 4 Problems associated with analog-to-digital conversion, sampling, aliasing, leakage, windowing, filters, processing of strong-motion accelerograms Lecture 5 Inverse problems in mechanics, damage detection by finite element model updating, estimation techniques and numerical optimization: one dimensional minimization and local unconstrained optimization techniques Lecture 6 Estimation techniques and numerical optimization: local constrained optimization techniques, global optimization techniques, comparison of the numerical data with test results, Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) Lecture 7 Finite element model updating, detection, localisation and quantification of damage in structures by finite element model updating Lecture 8 Vibration instrumentation, strong-motion instrumentation, exciters, transducers, performance specification, data acquisition systems Time schedule (12 hours) Afternoon block (14. 0017. 00) June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 Lectures 1 -2 Lectures 3 -4 Lectures 5 -6 Lectures 7 -8 • Place: TU Berlin, Fachgebiet Statik und Dynamik Gustav-Meyer -Allee 25, Sekr. TIB 1 -B 513355 25, Berlin • Course will be in English.