ENVELOPE PROCESS STATISTICS FOR LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEM SUBJECT TO NONSTATIONARY RANDOM VIBRATIONS

Giuseppe Carlo Marano (Italy)

Received January 17, 2008

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Keywords and phrases: nonstationary random vibrations, envelope process, covariance analysis.