Abstract: Wireless smart sensors, a popular option for structural health monitoring, are an exciting alternative to traditional tethered systems for structural control. Their onboard communication, sensing, actuation, and processing ...

Abstract: In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to research and development of structural control devices, with particular emphasis on alleviation of wind and seismic response of buildings and bridges. In both areas, ...

Abstract: Experimental verification of structural control strategies is essential for eventual full-scale implementations. However, few researchers have facilities readily available to them that are capable of even small-scale ...

Abstract: This paper presents a semi-implicit integration algorithm for random vibration problems that is appropriate for analyzing large structures, nonlinear hysteretic systems, and structural control problems. This semi-implicit ...

Abstract: A method to determine statistical moments of time to first passage of a simple oscillator, incorporating the modified Bouc hysteresis model, has been developed. A generalized Pontriagin‐Vitt equation is formulated from ...

Abstract: Crack propagation analysis is a major task in the design and life prediction of fatigue‐critical structures, yet experimental tests indicate that fatigue crack propagation involves a large amount of statistical variation ...

Abstract: The reliability of uncertain single degree‐of‐freedom linear and nonlinear systems subjected to broadband random excitation is examined. A robust Petrov‐Galerkin finite element solution for the reliability of deterministic ...

Abstract: A one-dimensional stochastic micromechanical model is developed for brittle materials subjected to monotonic uniaxial loading. The material is represented by a set of brittle linear-elastic springs of equal stiffness that ...