in the present paper, we are to put forth a paradigm for the systematic study of modality in persian.with this end in view, we consider modality as a linguistic phenomenon that can be expressed at the level of sentence, at the level of constituents smaller than sentence and/or at the level of discourse. in such a system where sentential modality, sub-sentential modality and discourse modality a...

At the end of its development cycle, a new truck variant is exposed to vibration tests, both in laboratory conditions by means of a 4-shaker test rig and in real road tests on a proving ground. The idea is to extend the use of these test data by applying Operational Modal Analysis and by being able to correlate the analysis results with Finite Element predictions. Basically, the only feasible w...

suhrawardi’s logic of the hikmat al-ishraq is basically modal. so to understand his modal logic one first has to know the non-modal part upon which his modal logic is built. in my previous paper ‘suhrawardi on syllogisms’(3) i discussed the former in detail. the present paper is an exposition of his treatment of modal syllogisms. on the basis of some reasonable existential presuppositions and a...

This paper presents a comparative study of conventional Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) and output-only Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) techniques for estimating the modal parameters of a moderately damped truck chassis. The OMA, without its need to measure input forces, would serve as a convenient methodology to test vehicle structures when response data alone is available. Data has been ac...

Every endofunctor B on the category Set can be lifted to a fibred functor on the category (fibred over Set) of equivalence relations and relation-preserving functions. In this paper, the least (fibre-wise) of such liftings, L(B), is characterized for essentially any B. The lifting has all the useful properties of the relation lifting due to Jacobs, without the usual assumption of weak pullback ...

System identification plays a crucial role in structural dynamics and vibro-acoustic system optimization. The followed approach is based on the “Modal Analysis” concept. The Eigenmodes of the system model can be visualized and allow a direct physical interpretation. Using the modal models, design improvements can be predicted and the structure optimized. The present paper not only reviews the t...

The output data from a structure is the building block for output-only modal analysis. The structure response in the output data, however, is usually contaminated with noise. Naturally, the success of output-only methods in determining the modal parameters of a structure depends on noise level. In this paper, the possibility and accuracy of identifying the modal parameters of a simply supported...

Room modes cause audible artifacts in listening environments. Modal control approaches have emerged in scientific literature over the years and, often, their performance is measured by criteria that may be perceptually unfounded. Previous research has shown modal decay as a key perceptual factor in detecting modal effects. In this work, perceptual thresholds for the effects of modes as a functi...