Abstract: Many of the active devices currently being researched for seismic structural control applications are highly energy intensive. This presents a serious concern for active control since adequate energy sources may not be ...

Abstract: Basic characteristics associated with snap‐through, bifurcation and post‐buckling behavior of structures are illuminated and clarified. This is accomplished by presenting and examining in detail exact closed‐form global ...

Abstract: To date, material modeling has involved the development of mathematical models of material behavior derived from human observation of, and reasoning with, experimental data. An alternative, discussed in this paper, is to ...