Abstract: The authors investigated the possibility of expanding the application of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) into the monitoring of stiff civil-engineering structures from the current limit of dominant frequencies ...

Abstract: This paper presents the development, testing, and characterization of an innovative low-cost fail-safe sustainable energy-dissipation device in which the material surrounding the moving piston and enclosed within the damper ...

Abstract: Analysis of an exceptionally long and homogeneous geodetic monitoring record of a deep-seated, slow

Abstract: A robotic total station (RTS) [or robotic theodolite or theodolite positioning system (TPS)] was used for the first time to measure the deflections of a short-span bridge in response to passing trains. The RTS measurements ...

Abstract: A new geodetic method for accurate determination of nearshore wave characteristics is proposed. This method is based on a robotic total station set on stable position on the coast and aiming at a passive reflector mounted ...

Abstract: Professor Clayton T. Crowe of Washington State University (WSU) made seminal contributions in the discipline of Fluids Engineering, starting with his early work on solid fuel combustion for rocket launching applications. ...

Abstract: Two types of free‐standing stairs, each having an axis that makes a 180° turn in plan, are considered. In the first, the horizontal projection of the axis consists of a central semicircle and two equal straight parts, and ...

Abstract: The full, 12×12, stiffness matrix of a free‐standing helicoidal stair is constructed in terms of its geometric characteristics. Knowledge of this stiffness matrix allows incorporation of the stair as a single element into ...