ISMA-USD 2024

The 2024 Leuven Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering will be held from 9 till 11 September
in Leuven, Belgium. It is the 31st international conference in a series of annual courses and biennial
conferences on structural dynamics, modal testing and noise and vibration engineering, organised by
the KU Leuven Department of Mechanical Engineering.
The conference provides a forum for engineers, researchers and other professionals active in the field of
modelling, analysing, testing and improving the noise and vibration characteristics of mechanical and
mechatronic systems and civil structures. A strong emphasis is on combining excellent academic
research activities with top-notch industrial innovations and applications. The conference combines
expertise in the 'noise' and 'vibration' fields by stressing common measurement, modelling, analysis and
control technologies and leveraging upon new paradigms such as digital twin, model based system
engineering and artificial intelligence. The meeting will provide a further impetus to the cross
fertilization of ideas in both areas.
The conference program will include keynote lectures, tutorials and invited and contributed papers in
specialised areas of noise and vibration engineering and structural dynamics. The focus of the
conference is on experimental and numerical methods, with special attention to recent applications
in vehicle, machine and civil engineering. Fields with a strong interaction between noise and vibration
behaviour will be stressed. Modal analysis and structural dynamic testing remains one of the backbones
of the conference, and herein we would like to emphasise limiting factors such as product and test
uncertainty as well as applications in the field of smart monitoring and damage assessment. The
continuous link between real assets and their digital counterparts is also exploited in digital
twin enabled noise and vibration research innovations and industrial applications.
The 10 th international conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics – USD2024 will be organised in
conjunction with ISMA2024.
Over the past decades, it is more and more acknowledged that including uncertainty in numerical
analysis embodies a very useful and valuable application of the increasing capabilities of modern (high-
performance) computer facilities, both in science and in industry. Non-deterministic methodologies
enable the numerical simulation of uncertain or variable processes, providing information on ranges of
possible behavior rather than unique predictions. This information can only increase the trustworthiness
of the underlying analysis, and proves to be of great value in the virtual prototyping process that is
becoming a standard in current design engineering practice.
The objective of the USD conference series is to gather scientists and engineers that are active in the
field of uncertainty modelling in structural dynamics. The conference intends to create an open
discussion forum on current developments and practices in this research area. The conference topics
range over analysis techniques, implementation strategies and applications of non-deterministic
numerical methods in structural dynamics, covering probabilistic as well as non-probabilistic
approaches.

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