Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470013524 ISBN 13: 9780470013526

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

This comprehensive handbook is designed to provide the reader withthe knowledge needed to successfully implement an active, hybrid orsemi-active control system to a structure, safeguarding it againstenvironmental forces such as wind or earthquakes. Written byleading experts in structural control, this book:

• Emphasises fail-safe techniques and validates theirimplementation through simulations.
• Examines the implicit issues between theoretical developmentand actual implementation of systems.
• Identifies important hardware and software safetyfeatures.
• Describes a PC-based system simulator, which simulates thereal-time response of structure and control hardware.

Active, Hybrid and Semi-active Structural Control is amust have reference for researchers, practitioners and designengineers working in civil, aerospace, automotive and mechanicalengineering. It is undoubtedly the key resource for allpostgraduate students in this rapidly growing area of researchinterest and development.

About the Author:

Prof. T.T. Soong, Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
Very well known in the field.?Has won various awards including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Norman Medal (1999), and Newmark Medal (2002).

Dr. S.Y. Chu, Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA, and Dr. A.M. Reinhorn, Clifford C. Furnas Professor of Structural Engineering and Co-Director, Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL), State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
Also well-established in the field and like Soong has received several professional awards, including the ASCE Award for outstanding service (1983, 1984).