“…The differentiation of the experimental data has been performed mainly by the finite difference method (Arruda and Mas, 1998;Schmidt, 2009) or by processing and filtering the data in its corresponding wavenumber domain (Arruda, 1992;Lopes et al, 2006;Morikawa et al, 1996;Pascal et al, 1996Pascal et al, , 2002Pascal et al, , 2006. Such approaches to assess the required spatial derivatives in combination with the described measuring techniques provided meaningful insights in the field, which includes the analysis of plates with peculiar features, such as plates with ribs or joints (Pascal et al, 2006;Semperlotti and Conlon, 2010;Zhang and Mann III, 1996), with cracks (Schmidt, 2009) and with orthotropic material properties (Lamberti and Semperlotti, 2013).…”