Refereed full length papers in the proceedings of international or national symposia

  1. Bekker, A., Muiyser, J. & Purcell, E. (2019), The effect of measurement duration on daily whole-body vibration exposure metrics, 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Montreal, Canada.
  2. Bekker, A., Muiyser, J. & Purcell, E. (2019), Whole-body vibration of heavy mobile equipment operators at an opencast mine, 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, Montreal, Canada.
  3. Nickerson, B.M. & Bekker, A. (2019),’Validation of external moment determination for the shaft-line of the S.A. Agulhas II’, International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland.
  4. Bekker, A. Lu, L., Van Zijl, C.M., Matthee, J. & Kujala, P. (2019), ‘Correlation between bow ice loads and operational responses during ice navigation in the Weddell Sea’, International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Delft, Netherlands.
  5. Bekker, A. & Van Zijl, C.M. (2019),’ The use of line detection to identify random impulses in long time histories’, International operational modal analysis conference (IOMAC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
  6. Van Zijl, C.M. & Bekker, A. (2019), ‘A parametric investigation of OMA on operational ship data’, International operational modal analysis conference (IOMAC), Copenhagen, Denmark.
  7. Soal, K., Govers, Y., Bienert, J., and Bekker, A. (2018), ‘Automatic modal parameter selection using a statistical model and a Kalman filter’, International Modal Analysis Conference (ISMA), Belgium, Leuven.
  8. Bekker, A., Van Zijl, C. M. and Saunders, C.F.W. (2018) The detection of wave slamming from vibration measurements on a polar supply and research vessel, 14th International conference on vibration engineering and technology of machinery, 10-13 September, Lisbon, Portugal.
  9. Bekker, A. and Van Zijl, C.M. (2018) Variations in vibration responses of an ice-going vessel during wave slamming, 31st Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Engineering Management, 3-5 July, North-West University, South Africa.
  10. Bekker, A. (2018) Exploring the blue skies potential of digital twin technology for a polar supply and research vessel, 13th International Marine Design Conference, 10-14 June, Helsinki, Finland.
  11. Muiyser, J., Van der Spuy, S.J. and Bekker, A. (2018) Comparison of sound-quality metrics for axial flow fans with straight and forward swept blades, In International conference on fan noise, aerodynamics, applications and systems, 18-20 April, Darmstadt, Germany.
  12. Bekker, A. (2017). From (Big) data to insight – a roadmap for the S.A. Agulhas II, In High-Performance Marine Vehicles, Zevenwacht, South Africa.
  13. Soal, K.I., Bienert, J. and Bekker, A. (2017). Inverse joint damping parameter estimation from experimental modal analysis, International Conference on Structural Engineering Dynamics, Ericeira, Portugal.
  14. De Waal, R.J.O., Bekker, A. and Heyns, P.S. (2017) Bi-polar full-scale measurements of operational loading on polar vessel shaft-lines. In 24th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Busan, Korea.
  15. Suominen, M., Bekker, A., Kujala, P., Soal. K.I. and Lensu, M. (2017) Visual Antarctic sea ice observations during austral summers 2012-2016. In 24th International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions, Busan, Korea.
  16. Kamper, M. and Bekker A. (2017). Modal analysis of a hyperelastic membrane for the development of a musical instrument, In 7th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference, Ingolstadt, Germany.
  17. Swart, D.J. and Bekker, A. (2016). Interior and Motorbay sound quality evaluation of full electric and hybrid-electric vehicles based on psychoacoustics, Inter-Noise, Hamburg, Germany.
  18. De Waal, R.J.O., Soal, K.I., Bekker, A. and Heyns, P.S. (2016). Rotational dynamic characteristics of the shaft line of a polar supply and research vessel during open water, cavitation and ice navigation, International Modal Analysis Conference (ISMA), Belgium, Leuven.
  19. Soal, K.I., Bekker, A., and Bienert, J. (2015). Structural vibration analysis on the polar supply and research vessel the S.A. Agulhas II in Antarctica. In 23rd International conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions. Trondheim, Norway.
  20. Soal, K.I., Bienert, J. and Bekker, A. (2015). Operational modal analysis on the polar supply and research vessel the S.A. Agulhas II. In 6th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference.
  21. Swart, D.J. and Bekker, A. (2014). The subjective evaluation of interior noise produced by electric vehicles, 9th South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics, Somerset West.
  22. Bekker, A., Suominen, M., Peltokorpi, O., Kulovesi, J., Kujala, P. and Karhunen, J. (2014) ‘Full-scale measurements on a polar supply and research vessel during maneuver tests in an ice field in the Baltic Sea’, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), San Francisco, USA.
  23. Suominen, M., Karhunen, J., Bekker, A. Kujala,P., Elo, M. Von Bock und Polach, R., Endlund H. and Saarinen, A. (2013). Full-scale measurements on board PSRV S.A. Agulhas II in the Baltic Sea. In 22nd International Conference on Port and Ocean Engineering under Arctic Conditions (POAC), Espoo, Finland.
  24. Bekker, A. (2013) Whole-body vibration comfort on the bridge of the S.A. Agulhas II polar supply and research vessel during ice-breaking., in 48th UK Group Meeting on Human Responses to vibration, Ascot, United Kingdom, p.151-162, 16-18 September.
  25. Soal, K. and Bekker, A. (2013). Whole-body Vibration Comfort on the S.A. Agulhas II Polar Supply and Research Vessel during a Voyage to Antarctica. in 48th UK Group Meeting on Human Responses to Vibration, Ascot, United Kingdom, p.163-174, 16-18 September.
  26. Van der Westhuizen* A. and Van Niekerk J.L., Verification of seat effective amplitude transmissibility (SEAT) value as a reliable metric to predict dynamic seat comfort. Presentation at the 39th United Kingdom Group Meeting on Human Responses to Vibration, held at Ludlow, Shropshire, UK.