406 M.S. Allen et al. There are also a few static pages that one can navigate to from the main page. • Test Bed Information—overview of Ampair test bed • Bibliography—page with a list of publications relevant to substructuring • Tutorials—collection of tutorials (slides, papers, etc. : : : ) providing an introduction to selected topics • Substructuring at IMAC—a list of substructuring publications presented at IMAC The “Toolbox” menu on the far left contains tools that contributors may use to add to the site. 38.2 Wiki Contents There is already wealth of information uploaded to the dynamic substructuring wiki. Users can locate information on the tests and substructuring calculations that have been performed by various contributors or on substructuring methods. Users can also find models and measurement results in various forms from experiments performed by contributors. Examples of several pages of wiki content will be displayed in this section of the paper. While this represents a significant start, the authors hope that the wiki will be used far more extensively in the future to enhance collaborations and enable new engineers, students or researchers to learn quickly from the substructuring research that has been performed. 38.2.1 Contributor Pages Each contributor should have a Contributor page which provides an overview of all of the information that they have added to the wiki. This is a great place to let the substructuring community know what current projects your group is working on or interested in. It is also very helpful to provide an overview of research that you have previously performed as well as links to any other websites, conference or journal articles, etc. : : : where interested readers can learn more. The general format for a contributor page includes a summary of experiments/research completed along with current plans and links to any experiments, methods, or calculations available on the wiki. An example of the University of Wisconsin-Madison contributor page is shown in Fig. 38.2. The goal of the wiki is to simplify collaboration and to help those involved in substructuring research to keep informed about work that has been or will be done at other institutions. If you are a new contributor, begin by adding a simple list of projects that your group has been involved in, publications that have resulted and your contact information. In the course of their work, most researchers will receive requests to share measurements, models or computational routines used in their work. When those requests come, post these items to the wiki (rather than attaching them to an email message or posting them on some external site). Encourage your collaborators to enhance your post by adding additional notes that were helpful to them as they used your contribution. As more of this information is captured on the wiki, it will quickly become an increasingly valuable resource. 38.2.2 Models A few contributions have already been added to the models section of the wiki. The Atomic Weapons Establishment contributed a detailed solid model of a blade of the Ampair turbine while Walter D’Ambrogio contributed a NASTRAN model of a blade which has already been used by several researchers, as reported in several recent IMAC papers (Fig. 38.3). 38.2.3 Experiments As shown in Fig. 38.2 a contributor page may provide links to summaries of several experiments or substructuring calculations. If desired, each experiment may have its own description page including an overview, photos, models, and experimental data, or simply post slides from a presentation that you have given regarding your experiments. Data and
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