Publications List

Journal Publications

• Pheysey, J., Mazancova, N., De Cola,F., García Cava, D. and Martinez-Hergueta, F., Experimental study on the vibrational response and damping of short fibre / unidirectional PEEK hybrid composites. Composite Structures 343, 118264, 2024.
• Lopez Dubon, S., Vogel, C., García Cava, D., Cuthill, F., McCarthy, Edward D. and Ó Bradaigh, C.M., A full-scale tidal blade fatigue test using the fastBlade facility. Composite Structures 228, 120653, 2024.
• Roberts C., Avedaño Valencia L. D. and García Cava D., Robust mitigation of EOVs using multivariate nonlinear regression within a vibration-based SHM methodology. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 208, 111028, 2024.
• Anderson F, Dawid R, McMillan D and García Cava D., A Bayesian reliability analysis exploring the effect of scheduled maintenance on wind turbine time-to-failure. Wind Energy, 26, 879–899, 2023.
• Du, Y., Wu, H., and García Cava D., A motion-blurred restoration method for surface damage detection of wind turbine blades. Measurement, 217, 113031, 2023.
• Anderson F, Dawid R, McMillan D and García Cava D., A Bayesian hierarchical assessment of night shift working for offshore wind farms. Wind Energy, 26, 402–421, 2023.
• de Oliveira M. A., Moraes R., Castanha E. B., Provedello A. S., Vier Filho J., Bussolaro A. and García Cava D., Osteoporosis Screening: Applied Methods and Technological Trends. Medical Engineering and Physics, 108, 103887, 2022.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Empirical mode decomposition to analyse instabilities in centrifugal compressors, Measurement, 199, 111496, 2022.
• Roberts C., García Cava D. and Avedaño Valencia L. D., Addressing practicalities in multivariate nonlinear regression for mitigating environmental and operational variations, Structural Health Monitoring, 22(2), 1237-1255, 2022.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Comparison of Empirical Mode Decomposition and Singular Spectrum Analysis for quick and robust detection of aerodynamic instabilities in centrifugal compressors, Sensors, 22(5), 2063, 2022.
• Movsessian A., García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., Interpretable machine learning in damage detection using Shapley Additive Explanations, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 8(2), 021101, 2022.
• Martakis, P., Movsessian, A., Reuland, Y., G. S. Pai, S., Quqa, S., García Cava D., Tcherniak, D. and Chatzi, E., 2021. A semi-supervised interpretable machine learning framework for Sensor Fault detection, Smart Structures and Systems, An International Journal, 29(1), 251-266, 2022.
• Pavlack B., Paixão J., da Silva S., Cunha Jr A. and García Cava D., Polynomial Chaos-Kriging metamodel for quantification of the debonding area in large wind turbine blades, Structural Health Monitoring, 22(1), 666-682, 2021.
• Movsessian A., García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., An artificial neural network methodology for damage detection: Demonstration on an operating wind turbine blade, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 159, 107766, 2021
• Logan A., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Singular spectrum analysis as a tool for detection of compressor flow instability, Measurement, 173, 108536, 2020
• García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., An experimental study on the data-driven structural health monitoring of large wind turbine blades using a single accelerometer and actuator, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 127, 102-119, 2019
• García Cava D., Trendafilova I. and Inman D. J., A study on the vibration-based self-monitoring capabilities of nano-enriched composite laminated beam, Smart Materials and Structures, 25, 045011, 2016.
• García Cava D. and Trendafilova I., Reprint: A multivariate data analysis approach towards vibration analysis and vibration-based damage assessment. Application for delamination detection in composite materials. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 338, 76-90, 2015
• García Cava D., Palazzetti R., Trendafilova I., Fiorini C. and Zucchelliand A., Vibration-based delamination diagnosis and modelling for composite laminate plates. Composite Structures, 130, 155-162, 2015
• García Cava D., Stickland M. and Liskiewicz G., Dynamical system analysis of unstable flow phenomena in centrifugal blower. Open Engineering, 5, 332–342
• García Cava D. and Trendafilova I., A multivariate data analysis approach towards vibration analysis and vibration-based damage assessment. Application for delamination detection in composite materials. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 333, 7036-7050, 2014

• García Cava D., Avedaño Valencia L. D., Movsessian A., Roberts C. and Tcherniak D., On explicit and implicit procedures to mitigate environmental and operational variabilities in data-driven structural health monitoring. Chapter in the Book on Structural Health Monitoring Based on Data Science Techniques. Structural Integrity, Springer, pp. 309-330, vol 21, Cury A., Ribeiro D., Ubertini F., Todd M.D. (eds). 2021.
• Trendafilova I., García Cava D. and Al-Bugharbee H., Data-Driven Methods for Vibration-Based Monitoring Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis. In Vibration-Based Techniques for Damage Detection and Localization in Engineering Structures, World Scientific, pp. 41-73, Ali S Nobari and M H Ferri Aliabadi (eds.), 2018.
• Data-based vibration structural health monitoring methodology for composite laminated structuresData-Driven Methods for Vibration-Based Monitoring Based on Singular Spectrum Analysis. PhD Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2016.

• Rashid, D. S., Giorgio-Serchi, F., Hosoya, N. and García Cava D., Physics Informed Machine Learning for Bolt Tension Estimation. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024), June 10-13, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany.
• Qu, K., Logan, A., Miller, E. and García Cava D., Mitigation of environmental and operational variability on time-variant offshore structures for long-term performance evaluation. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024), June 10-13, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany. Only in book of abstracts.
• Reid S., Logan A, Miller E. and García Cava D., On modal characterisation for long-term monitoring in offshore structures. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024), June 10-13, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany.
• Pereira, A.S., Silva T.A.N. and García Cava D., An approach to data-driven damage assessment using data expansion. In Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024), June 10-13, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany. Only in book of abstracts.
• Font-Moré J., García Cava D., Pérez M.A. and Avedaño Valencia L. D. A latent variable approach for mitigation of environmental and operational variability in vibration based SHM – A linear approach, In Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2024), June 10-13, 2024 in Potsdam, Germany. e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing.
• Font-Moré J., Avedaño Valencia L. D., García Cava D. and Pérez M.A. Interpreting environmental variability from damage sensitive features., In 10th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Smart structure and Materials. ECCOMAS Procedia, 2023.
• Mitchell, H., Pready, N, García Cava, D., Mehmanparast, A. and Thies, P. Informing Asset Life Extension: Probabilistic Fatigue Life Reassessment of Offshore Wind Turbine Structural Components Using a Bayesian Network, In International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. Vol. 87578. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2023.
• Anderson, F., Dawid, R., McMillan, D. and García Cava D., On the Sensitivity of Wind Turbine Failure Rate Estimates to Failure Definitions., In Proceedings of European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) DeepWind. Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser. 2626 012025.
• Lopez Dubon, D., Vogel, C., García Cava D., Cuthill, F., McCarthy, E. and Ó Brádaigh C.M.. Multi-Actuator Full-Scale Fatigue Test of a Tidal Blade, In Proceedings of 15th Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, 15:2023.
• Rashid,D. S., Giorgio-Serchi, F., Hosoya, N. and García Cava D., Estimation of bolt tension using transverse natural frequencies of the shank and protruding end, In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2647 (2024) 182005.
• Roberts C., Avedaño Valencia L. D. and García Cava D., Assessment of regression variabilities and biases: a demonstration in the context of structural health monitoring, In Journal of Physics: Conference Series 2647 (2024) 182017.
• García Cava D., Qu, K., Kilbourn, S. and Logan, A., Data-driven mitigation of environmental and operational variability for monitoring a time-variant damage extension, In Institute of Physics (IOP) workshop on Physics Enhancing Machine Learning in Applied Solid Mechanics, London, December 12th 2022.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Probabilistic classification of centrifugal compressor operating conditions, In Proceedings of 30th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, W. Desmet, B. Pluymers, D. Moens, W. RottiersLeuven (eds.), Leuven, Belgium, 12-14 September 2022.
• Qu K., García Cava D., Killbourn, S. and Logan A. Operational Modal Analysis for Scour Detection in Mono-Pile Offshore Wind Turbines, In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. EWSHM 2022. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, Springer, 254:309-330, 2023.
• da Silva, S., Pavlack B., Norenberg J. P., Cunha Jr. A. García Cava D., Sensitivity analysis of sensor location for damage detection in a wind turbine blade, In Proceedings Brazilian Conference on Composite Materials (BCCM 2022), 2022.
• Movsessian A., García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., Interpretable novelty index for robust damage detection, In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2022). Only in book of abstracts.
• Roberts C., García Cava D. and Avedaño Valencia L. D., Addressing regressor selection with stepwise nonlinear regression for robust EOV mitigation, In European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2022). Only in book of abstracts.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Evaluation of EMD and SSA sensitivity for efficient detection of aerodynamic instabilities in centrifugal compressors, in proceedings the Signal Processing Symposium (SPSympo-2021).
• Anderson, F., Dawid, R., García Cava D. and McMillan, D., Operational metrics for an offshore wind farm & their relation to turbine access restrictions and position in the array, in Proceedings of European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) DeepWind. Journal of Physics: Conf. Ser. 0120022021, 2018.
• Roberts C., García Cava D. and Avedaño Valencia L. D., Understanding the influence of environmental and operational variability on wind turbine blade monitoring, in Proceedings European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2020), Rizzo P., Milazzo A. (eds.). Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 127:109-118, 2021.
• Paixão J., da Silva S. and García Cava D., Debonding quantification in large wind turbine blades based on Gaussian process regression, in Proceedings of 5th Brazilian Conference on Composite Materials – BCCM 5, 2020.
• Movsessian A., Qadri B. A., Tcherniak D., García Cava D. and Ulriksen M. D., 2020. Mitigation of environmental variabilities in damage detection: A comparative study of two semi-supervised approaches. EASD Procedia. In Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2020), 1281-1292, 2020.
• Movsessian A., García Cava D., Tcherniak D. and Janeliukstis R., 2020. A methodology of interpretable novelty detection. EASD Procedia. In Proceedings of International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN 2020), 922-935, 2020.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Cyclostationary approach for instabilities detection and condition monitoring of centrifugal compressor, in proceedings ASME Turbo Expo 2020 GT2020, Volume 2E, 2020.
• Stajuda M., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Flow instabilities detection in centrifugal blower using empirical mode decomposition, in Proceedings of Global Power and Propulsion Society, Beijing, China 16-18 September 2019.
• Movsessian A., García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., Adaptive feature selection for enhancing blade damage diagnosis on an operational wind turbine. In: Wahab M. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2020.
• Roberts C., García Cava D. and Tcherniak D., A comparative study on data manipulation in PCA-based structural health monitoring systems for removing environmental and operational variations. In: Wahab M. (eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering, 2020.
• García Cava D., Tcherniak D. and Branner K., Virtual prototyping of an actuator-based structural health monitoring system of wind turbine blades. In Proceedings of 28th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, W. Desmet, B. Pluymers, D. Moens, W. RottiersLeuven (eds.), Belgium, 17-19 September 2018.
• García Cava D. and Trendafilova I., Study of Singular Spectrum Analysis as a data-driven technique for damage diagnosis. Comparison between the time or frequency domain, in proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Vibration (ICoEV-2107), Sofia, Bulgaria, 4-7 September 2017. MATEC Web of Conferences 148: 14003, 2018.
• Roberts C., Isbister S., Murphy C., Nisbet C., Sweeney P., Tcherniak D. and García Cava D., Strain estimation using modal expansion approach via virtual sensing for structural asset management, in Proceedings 1st International Conference on Structural Integrity for offshore energy industry, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 6-7 September 2018.
• Logan A., García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Detection of inlet recirculation as an early indicator of proximity to instability in centrifugal compressors. In Proceedings of 13th International symposium on compressor and turbine flow systems theory and application areas, Łódź, Poland 18-20 October 2018.
• García Cava D., Trendafilova I. and Inman D. J., Delamination detection and growth assessment in composite laminated beams through data-driven vibration structural health monitoring, in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Engineering Structural Integrity Assessment (ESIA14), Manchester, UK, on 15 to 19 May 2017.
• García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Stable or not stable? Recognizing surge based on the pressure signal, in proceedings of 12th International symposium on compressor and turbine flow systems theory and application areas, Gdańsk, Poland 18-19 October 2016.
• García Cava D., Tcherniak D. and Trendafilova I., Damage assessment for wind turbine blades based on a multivariate statistical approach, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 628:012086, 2015.
• García Cava D. and Liskiewicz G., Dynamical system analysis of unstable flow phenomena in centrifugal blower, in Proceedings of 11th International symposium on compressor and turbine flow systems theory and application areas, Łódź, Poland 20-23 October 2014.
• García Cava D. and Trendafilova I., Singular Spectrum Analysis for identifying structural nonlinearity using free-decay responses. Application for delamination detection and diagnosis in composite laminates. In Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, W. Desmet, B. Pluymers, D. Moens, W. Rottiers, Leuven (eds.), Leuven, Belgium, 15-17 September 2014.
• Palazzetti R., García Cava D., Trendafilova I., Fiorini C. and Zucchelliand A., An investigation in vibration modeling and vibration-based monitoring for composite laminates. In Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, W. Desmet, B. Pluymers, D. Moens, W. RottiersLeuven (eds.), Leuven, Belgium, 15-17 September 2014.
• García Cava D., Trendafilova I. and Al-Bugharbee H., Vibration-based health monitoring approach for composite structures using multivariate statistical analysis, in Proceedings of EWSHM 7th European workshop on structural health monitoring, Nantes, France, 8-11 July 2014.
• García Cava D. and Trendafilova I., Multivariate statistical analysis for damage and delamination detection in composite structures, in Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Vibrations Problems, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-12 September 2013.