Acknowledgments

My sincere thanks are firstly due to Professor Robin S. Langley, my supervisor during the years in Cambridge, for providing academic ideas, patient guidance and valuable support. The advice and help that I received from Sondipon Adhikari, Srikantha Phani, Andrew Grime, Rolf Lande, Brian Jujnovich, Simon Rutherford and other members in the Dynamics and Vibration Research Group will not be forgotten.

The support and information given freely and generously by researchers in the engineering domain outside Cambridge are acknowledged with much gratitude, in particular, Dr Qin Feng and Dr Jim Margetson, whose names should be mentioned.

My due thanks go to my colleagues at the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd (COMAC). ...

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