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Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Building Control with Passive Dampers
Author: Izuru TakewakiPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470824921
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The recent introduction of active and passive structural control methods has given structural designers powerful tools for performance-based design. However, structural engineers often lack the tools for the optimal selection and placement of such systems. In Building Control with Passive Dampers , Takewaki brings together most the reliable, state-of-the-art methods in practice around the world, arming readers with a real sense of how to address optimal selection and placement of passive control systems. The first book on optimal design, sizing, and location selection of passive dampers Combines theory and practical applications Describes step-by-step how to obtain optimal damper size and placement Covers the state-of-the-art in optimal design of passive control Integrates the most reliable techniques in the top literature and used in practice worldwide Written by a recognized expert in the area MATLAB code examples available from the book’s Companion Website This book is essential for post-graduate students, researchers, and design consultants involved in building control. Professional engineers and advanced undergraduates interested in seismic design, as well as mechanical engineers looking for vibration damping techniques, will also find this book a helpful reference. Code examples available at www.wiley.com/go/takewaki
The Story Behind Skyscrapers
Author: Sean PricePublisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432923495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Examines the history of the world's tallest buildings, including some of the challenges faced in design and construction and how their builders tested the limits of technology.
Vibration Monitoring, Testing, and Instrumentation
Author: Clarence W. de SilvaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420053205
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Controlling a system's vibrational behavior, whether for reducing harmful vibrations or for enhancing useful types, is critical to ensure safe and economical operation as well as longer structural and equipment lifetimes. A related issue is the effect of vibration on humans and their environment. Achieving control of vibration requires thorough und
The Mechanical World
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Advances in Building Technology
Author: M. AnsonPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080526632
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1844
Book Description
This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.
Earthquake, Blast and Impact
Author: Seced - The Society For Earthquake & Civil Engineering DynamicsPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482286726
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
This volume consists of papers presented at the International Conference on Earthquake, Blast and Impact held at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, 18-20 September 1991, organised by the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) and supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Instituti
World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology
Author: B.F. Spencer Jr.Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 143982844X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Research in smart materials and structures seeks to apply multifunctional capabilities of new and existing materials to develop structures and systems that are capable of self-sensing and monitoring, self-diagnosis and prognosis with intelligence, self-healing and repair, and adaptive response to prevent loss of human life and catastrophe, to minimize maintenance and life-cycle costs, and to prolong service life. This book provides the critical knowledge and technological bases required for meeting one of the ultimate engineering challenges: the design and construction of smart structures and systems.
The Search for Knowledge and Understanding
Author: Professor Maxwell R. Bennett AOPublisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1742104509
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
For nearly a millennium, universities have searched forknowledge, understanding and truth. Internationally renowned neuroscientist,Professor Maxwell Bennett, evaluates the work of 20 of the greatest scholars inthe University of Sydney’s history and shows how this university’s search hasbenefitted society in manifold ways. The Search forKnowledge and Understanding demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach, asBennett crafts short but insightful biographies of some of the most significantscholars that have worked at Australia’s oldest university over the past halfcentury, in medicine, the life sciences, the physical sciences and thehumanities and social sciences. Bennet provides a striking account of how this particularscholarly community has flourished by nurturing scholars and allowing them withthe intellectual freedom to pursue their passions. The book clarifies thenotion of understanding as it holds in different disciplines and depicts thebenefit the world of scholarship can have on the wider community.
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