Research Article

An Experimental Test Bed for Developing High-Rate Structural Health Monitoring Methods

Figure 1

Configurations for the DROPBEAR test bed. Subfigures (a) and (b) show a photo and a schematic of the cantilever beam with detaching electromagnet. Subfigures (c) and (d) show the same setup including the cart with rollers to create a moving pin condition along the span of the beam.
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