For the purpose of health monitoring, post-earthquake condition evaluation and safety appraisal of existing infrastructures, many structural parameter identification meth [...]

An innovative re-centering damping device is presented. Being configurated simply, the device comprises two functional groups of superelastic SMA strands, i.e. the un-pre [...]

This paper presents an extensive experimental program and main results of shaking table tests performed on reduced-scale steel frame model with and without passive energy [...]

A mathematical model of any real system is always just an approximation of the true, physical reality of the system dynamics. There are always uncertainties in the system [...]

In this paper, a combined analytical and experimental approach is used to characterize the vibration behavior of pultruded Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) composite cantil [...]