“…Details of the ARMA technique can be found in Mignolet & Red-Horse (1994) to which interested readers are referred. The use of this technique to analyse time series derived from #ow-induced vibration problems has been attempted by Jadic et al (1998), Zhou et al (1999) and So et al (1999), and their results had been compared with those deduced from the fast Fourier transform method. The method was found to be able to correctly resolve the spectral characteristics and the e!ective damping of 852 the cylinder.…”