Smart structures innovative systems for seismic <U+000d><U+000a>response control

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...

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Main Author: Cheng, Franklin Y
Other Authors: Lou, Kangyu, Jiang, Hongping
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group c2008
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Online Access:http://books.google.com/books?id=93ysnbMf8oQC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false