TY - BOOK ID - 88204270 TI - Inverse problems in engineering mechanics II AU - Tanaka, M AU - Dulikravich, George S PY - 2000 SN - 9780080436937 0080436935 0080535151 9780080535159 1281036757 9781281036759 9786611036751 661103675X PB - Amsterdam New York Elsevier Science B.V. DB - UniCat KW - Mechanics, Applied KW - Inverse problems (Differential equations) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:88204270 AB - Inverse Problems are found in many areas of engineering mechanics and there are many successful applications e.g. in non-destructive testing and characterization of material properties by ultrasonic or X-ray techniques, thermography, etc. Generally speaking, inverse problems are concerned with the determination of the input and the characteristics of a system, given certain aspects of its output. Mathematically, such problems are ill-posed and have to be overcome through development of new computational schemes, regularization techniques, objective functionals, and experimental procedures. ER -