Abstract: This paper presents a theory for the control and containment of structural motion in civil and space structures. Potential uses include the limiting of seismic damage in a skyscraper and motion control in a space station. ...

Abstract: The Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) is one of NASA's Discovery series missions in which a single spacecraft will be launched in July 2002 to journey to the coma of comets Encke and Schwassmann-Wachmann-3 at velocities of 28.2 ...

Abstract: This paper describes a generalized and rational computational approach to qualitatively measure the level of damage generated by projectiles impacting a system of bumper plates. A single impact damage index (SIDI) model ...