Lab reports and scientific papers should persuade others to accept or reject hypotheses by presenting data and interpretations; detail data, procedures, and outcomes for future researchers; become part of the accepted body of scientific knowledge when published unless later disproved; and Provide an archival record for reference and document a current situation for future comparison. […]
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NLD Letter and Presentation Templates
These are the templates you can use to prepare the NLD-related letters and the presentations. We provide templates for Microsoft Word and Powerpoint as well as for Apple Pages and Keynote.
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Our paper “smooth mode decomposition: Theory and its applications in full-field output-only modal analysis” was published by the Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. Highlights Smooth mode decomposition (SMD) identifies the normal modes from system outputs. The spatial differential operator endows SMD to identify smooth modal strucutures SMD-identified modes approximate normal modes of systems with nonuniform […]
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Our paper titled “Geometry-informed phase space warping for reliable fatigue damage monitoring” was published online by the Structural Health Monitoring. Here’s the abstract: This paper presents a new fatigue damage detection and monitoring approach using a geometry-informed implementation of phase space warping (PSW). The proposed method is based on continuous-time PSW theory and geometric constructs, […]
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The apps Notion and Obsidian are becoming indispensable tools for research, archival, and manipulation of personal knowledge and projects. In our lab, we focus on these two apps, but some others have similar capabilities, and you may find they work better for you in certain cases. Notion Tutorials Using databases in the notion(83) Notion Databases – Full Course for […]
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Dalton has presented his first paper on Subband Decomposition-Based Vibration Mode Identification at the IMAC-XL conference in Orlando, Florida on February 10, 2022. Hewenxuan‘s paper on Optimal Parameter Selection Guidelines for Phase Space Warping was also presented at the IMAC-XL.
Continue reading "Dalton’s First Paper at IMAC-XL"Preparing Documents for NLD using LaTeX
At the NLD, we standardize on a LaTeX package for preparing technical documents starting from reports and papers to theses and dissertations. We use an online LaTeX typesetting tool Overleaf (at https://www.overleaf.com/). To familiarize yourself with LaTeX and Overleaf, I recommend you watch these LaTex Tutorials on YouTube. We also have a basic NLD paper […]
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The abstract is probably the most important section of your manuscript. It is the first thing readers use in judging the quality of your paper and determining whether to proceed to read it or not. Furthermore, journal editors read the abstract first when deciding whether to send your manuscript for review. While the abstract is […]
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Hewenxuan Li 1. Introduction It is vital for researchers to present their work and convey their ideas to help inspire other researchers and guide them to the state-of-the-art. This often requires one to publish their work in a scientific journal, which is peer-reviewed to make sure that, at least, no fundamental flaws or plagiarism is […]
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This Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory’s (NLD’s) computer usage policy outlines the guidelines for properly using its computers and the University of Rhode Island’s (URI’s) network and internet.This policy aims to avoid inappropriate, illegal, and unauthorized use of NLD’s computing equipment and information technology and to avoid jeopardizing the NLD’s reputation and security.These guidelines apply to all […]
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