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Book Control  Optimization  and Smart Structures

Download or read book Control Optimization and Smart Structures written by Hojjat Adeli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-05-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smarte" oder "adaptive" Systeme sind die neue Generation von Konstruktionen im Bauwesen. Mit Hilfe integrierter Computersteuerungen können solche Systeme auf äußere Einflüsse wie Erdbeben und Stürme flexibel reagieren. Derartige Technologien erobern gegenwärtig die Akzeptanz der Fachleute - daher ist dieses Buch, das sich mit technischen Aspekten ebenso wie mit der Praxis der effektiven Konstruktion beschäftigt, hochaktuell. (08/99)

Book Wavelet Based Vibration Control of Smart Buildings and Bridges

Download or read book Wavelet Based Vibration Control of Smart Buildings and Bridges written by Hojjat Adeli and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes, bridge collapses, and other natural disasters have dominated news coverage in the last few years. Aging infrastructure needs to be rehabilitated and new infrastructure needs to be designed differently. Presenting a highly innovative, modern approach verging on the futuristic, Wavelet-Based Vibration Control of Smart Buildings and Bridges discusses a new generation of building and bridge structures that not only withstands [generation is singular] the destructive effects of nature but is also impact and explosion resistant. Based on the groundbreaking work of Hojit Adeli, the book introduces the new mathematical concept of wavelets into the field of structural vibration control. It presents a new control algorithm for robust control of smart civil structures subjected to destructive environmental forces, such as earthquakes and wind. It then discusses a new hybrid control system, the hybrid tuned liquid column damper (TLCD) system. The new hybrid control system, which combines passive and semi-active control systems, is intended to achieve increased reliability and maximum operability of the control system during power failure and to eliminate the need for a larger power requirement. The great majority of papers published in this area of active structural vibration control deal with small or academic problems. The models in this book have been tested and their effectiveness evaluated extensively on small problems for the sake of comparison with other methods and results reported in the literature. The authors go one step further and apply them to realistic and large building and bridge structures to demonstrate the applicability of the new smart technology to large real-world civil structures. Balancing coverage between theory and application, the book demonstrates the benefits of the new smart technology in the design of structures that are safer and more sustainable.

Book Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems

Download or read book Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems written by Lagaros, Nikos D. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A typical engineering task during the development of any system is, among others, to improve its performance in terms of cost and response. Improvements can be achieved either by simply using design rules based on the experience or in an automated way by using optimization methods that lead to optimum designs. Design Optimization of Active and Passive Structural Control Systems includes Earthquake Engineering and Tuned Mass Damper research topics into a volume taking advantage of the connecting link between them, which is optimization. This is a publication addressing the design optimization of active and passive control systems. This title is perfect for engineers, professionals, professors, and students alike, providing cutting edge research and applications.

Book Smart Structures

Download or read book Smart Structures written by Franklin Y. Cheng and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative concept, smart structural systems have proven to be extremely effective in absorbing damaging energy and/or counteracting potentially devastating force, thus limiting structural collapse and subsequent injury. As this technology rapidly evolves, there is an ever-increasing need for an authoritative reference that will allow those in t

Book IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems

Download or read book IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems written by Ulrich Gabbert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems, held in Magdeburg, Germany, 26-29 September 2000

Book Smart Structures and Materials

Download or read book Smart Structures and Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamics of Smart Structures

Download or read book Dynamics of Smart Structures written by Ranjan Vepa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics of Smart Structures is a practical, concise and integrated text that provides an introduction to the fundamental principles of a field that has evolved over the recent years into an independent and identifiable subject area. Bringing together the concepts, techniques and systems associated with the dynamics and control of smart structures, it comprehensively reviews the differing smart materials that are employed in the development of the smart structures and covers several recent developments in the field of structural dynamics. Dynamics of Smart Structures has been developed to complement the author's new interdisciplinary programme of study at Queen Mary, University of London that includes courses on emerging and new technologies such as biomimetic robotics, smart composite structures, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and their applications and prosthetic control systems. It includes chapters on smart materials and structures, transducers for smart structures, fundamentals of structural control, dynamics of continuous structures, dynamics of plates and plate-like structures, dynamics of piezoelectric media, mechanics of electro-actuated composite structures, dynamics of thermo-elastic media: shape memory alloys, and controller designs for flexible structures.

Book Intelligent Materials and Structures

Download or read book Intelligent Materials and Structures written by Haim Abramovich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Materials and Structures provides exceptional insights into designing intelligent materials and structures for special applications in engineering. The author introduces the fundamental materials science involved in research endeavors and simultaneously reviews the current state-of-the-art of intelligent materials and structures. Separate chapters are devoted to the thorough examination of theory and application of laminated composite materials, Piezoelectricity, Shape Memory Alloys, Electro- and Magnetorheological fluids as well as Magneto- and Electrostrictive materials. Each chapter contains numerous equations and figures describing theories, models and behavior of the intelligent material discussed. Special attention is paid to applications of intelligent materials to various structures in the aerospace and medical sector, piezoelectric motors as well as piezoelectric and electromagnetic energy harvesting. Contents: Introduction to Intelligent Materials and Structures Laminated Composite Materials Piezoelectricity Shape Memory Alloys Electrorheological and Magnetorheological Fluids Magnetostrictive and Electrostrictive Materials Applications of Intelligent Materials in Structures Energy Harvesting using Intelligent Materials Index

Book Smart Structures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Holnicki-Szulc
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2011-10-08
  • ISBN : 9789401146128
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Smart Structures written by Jan Holnicki-Szulc and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart (intelligent) structures have been the focus of a great deal of recent research interest. In this book, leading researchers report the state of the art and discuss new ideas, results and trends in 43 contributions, covering fundamental research issues, the role of intelligent monitoring in structural identification and damage assessment, the potential of automatic control systems in achieving a desired structural behaviour, and a number of practical issues in the analysis and design of smart structures in mechanical and civil engineering applications. Audience: A multidisciplinary reference for materials scientists and engineers in such areas as mechanical, civil, aeronautical, electrical, control, and computer engineering.

Book CIGOS 2019  Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure

Download or read book CIGOS 2019 Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure written by Cuong Ha-Minh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents selected articles from the 5th International Conference on Geotechnics, Civil Engineering Works and Structures, held in Ha Noi, focusing on the theme “Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure”, aiming to not only raise awareness of the vital importance of sustainability in infrastructure development but to also highlight the essential roles of innovation and technology in planning and building sustainable infrastructure. It provides an international platform for researchers, practitioners, policymakers and entrepreneurs to present their recent advances and to exchange knowledge and experience on various topics related to the theme of “Innovation for Sustainable Infrastructure”.

Book Optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers

Download or read book Optimization of Tuned Mass Dampers written by Gebrail Bekdaş and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a timely book to summarize the latest developments in the optimization of tuned mass dampers covering all classical approaches and new trends including metaheuristic algorithms. Also, artificial intelligence and machine learning methods are included to predict optimum results by skipping long optimization processes. Another difference and advantage of the book are to provide chapters about several types of control types including passive tuned mass dampers, active tuned mass dampers, tuned liquid dampers, tuned liquid column dampers and inerter dampers. Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) are vibration absorber devices used in all types of mechanic systems. The key factor in the design is an effective tuning of TMDs for the desired performance. In practice, several high-rise structures and bridges were designed by including TMDs. Also, TMDs were installed after the construction of the structures after several negative experiences resulting from the disturbing sway of the structures. In optimum design, several closed-form expressions have been proposed for optimum frequency and damping ratio of TMDs, but the exact optimization requires iterative optimization approaches. The current trend is to use evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristic optimization methods to reach the goal.

Book Construction Scheduling  Cost Optimization and Management

Download or read book Construction Scheduling Cost Optimization and Management written by Hojjat Adeli and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Scheduling, Cost Optimization and Management presents a general mathematical formula for the scheduling of construction projects. Using this formula, repetitive and non-repetitive tasks, work continuity considerations, multiple-crew strategies, and the effects of varying job conditions on the performance of a crew can be modelled.L This book presents an entirely new approach to the construction scheduling problem. It provides a practical methodology which will be of great benefit to all those involved in construction scheduling and cost optimization, including construction engineers, highway engineers, transportation engineers, contractors and architects. It will also be useful for researchers, and graduates on courses in construction scheduling and planning.

Book Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems

Download or read book Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems written by Wen Yu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems" gathers contributions from workers around the world and presents them in four categories according to the style of control employed: fuzzy control; neural control; fuzzy neural control; and intelligent control. The contributions illustrate the interdisciplinary antecedents of intelligent control and contrast its results with those of more traditional control methods. A variety of design examples, drawn primarily from robotics and mechatronics but also representing process and production engineering, large civil structures, network flows, and others, provide instances of the application of computational intelligence for control. Presenting state-of-the-art research, this collection will be of benefit to researchers in automatic control, automation, computer science (especially artificial intelligence) and mechatronics while graduate students and practicing control engineers working with intelligent systems will find it a good source of study material.

Book Dynamics of Advanced Materials and Smart Structures

Download or read book Dynamics of Advanced Materials and Smart Structures written by Kazumi Watanabe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two key words for mechanical engineering in the future are Micro and Intelligence. It is weIl known that the leadership in the intelligence technology is a marter of vital importance for the future status of industrial society, and thus national research projects for intelligent materials, structures and machines have started not only in advanced countries, but also in developing countries. Materials and structures which have self-sensing, diagnosis and actuating systems, are called intelligent or smart, and are of growing research interest in the world. In this situation, the IUT AM symposium on Dynamics 0/ Advanced Materials and Smart Structures was a timely one. Smart materials and structures are those equipped with sensors and actuators to achieve their designed performance in achanging environment. They have complex structural properties and mechanical responses. Many engineering problems, such as interface and edge phenomena, mechanical and electro-magnetic interaction/coupling and sensing, actuating and control techniques, arise in the development ofintelligent structures. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature ofthese problems, all ofthe classical sciences and technologies, such as applied mathematics, material science, solid and fluid mechanics, control techniques and others must be assembled and used to solve them. IUTAM weIl understands the importance ofthis emerging technology. An IUTAM symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems (Chaired by U.

Book Smart Structures Theory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Inderjit Chopra
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 052186657X
  • Pages : 925 pages

Download or read book Smart Structures Theory written by Inderjit Chopra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on smart materials and structures, which are also referred to as intelligent, adaptive, active, sensory, and metamorphic. The ultimate goal is to develop biologically inspired multifunctional materials with the capability to adapt their structural characteristics, monitor their health condition, perform self-diagnosis and self-repair, morph their shape, and undergo significant controlled motion.

Book Optimization  Control  and Applications in the Information Age

Download or read book Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age written by Athanasios Migdalas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent developments in theory, algorithms, and applications in optimization and control are discussed in this proceedings, based on selected talks from the ‘Optimization Control and Applications in the Information Age’ conference, organized in honor of Panos Pardalos’s 60th birthday. This volume contains numerous applications to optimal decision making in energy production and fuel management, data mining, logistics, supply chain management, market network analysis, risk analysis, and community network analysis. In addition, a short biography is included describing Dr. Pardalos’s path from a shepherd village on the high mountains of Thessaly to academic success. Due to the wide range of topics such as global optimization, combinatorial optimization, game theory, stochastics and programming contained in this publication, scientists, researchers, and students in optimization, operations research, analytics, mathematics and computer science will be interested in this volume.

Book Intelligent Infrastructure

Download or read book Intelligent Infrastructure written by Hojjat Adeli and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent estimates hypothesize that the US will need $1.6 trillion dollars for the rehabilitation, replacement, and maintenance of existing infrastructure systems within the next 20 years. Presenting a new vision and way of designing and managing the civil infrastructure of the nation, Intelligent Infrastructure: Neural Networks, Wavelets, and Chaos