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Research paper thumbnail of Shape Memory Alloys: Advances in Modelling and Applications

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptive Solution for Intelligent Cable Vibration Mitigation

Advances in Science and Technology, Feb 10, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Experimental study on hybrid control of multimodal cable vibrations

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Electronic Integrator to Convert Accelerations to Velocities for a Fuzzy Logic Controller

Research paper thumbnail of Use of System Identification Techniques for Damage Assessment and Recovery of Space Truss Structures

Research paper thumbnail of Damage Assessment Toward Performance Control

Research paper thumbnail of System identification toward FEM updating of a super high-rise building

Research paper thumbnail of Energy harvesting and power management of wireless sensors for structural control applications in civil engineering

SMART STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

The authors' research efforts recently led to the development of a customized wireless contro... more The authors' research efforts recently led to the development of a customized wireless control unit which receives the real-time feedbacks from the sensors, and elaborates the consequent control signal to drive the actuator(s). The controller is wireless in performing the data transmission task, i.e., it receives the signals from the sensors without the need of installing any analogue cable connection between them, but it is powered by wire. The actuator also needs to be powered by wire. In this framework, the design of a power management unit is of interest only for the wireless sensor stations, and it should be adaptable to different kind of sensor requirements in terms of voltage and power consumption. In the present paper, the power management efficiency is optimized by taking into consideration three different kinds of accelerometers, a load cell, and a non-contact laser displacement sensor. The required voltages are assumed to be provided by a power harvesting solution whe...

Research paper thumbnail of Fuzzy Chip Controller Implementation

Structural Control for Civil and Infrastructure Engineering - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Structural Control, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing a fuzzy controller into an active mass damper device

Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference (Cat. No.97CH36041), 1997

Discusses the problems arising in the implementation of a fuzzy controller to control the respons... more Discusses the problems arising in the implementation of a fuzzy controller to control the response of a structural system in a laboratory environment. The goal is to establish a procedure for performing a shaking table laboratory test on a scaled specimen

Research paper thumbnail of Some reliability aspects in structural control

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2000

The reliability aspects associated with the system made of an actively controlled structure and i... more The reliability aspects associated with the system made of an actively controlled structure and its control devices are discussed. Standard tools of system reliability analysis turns out to be a convenient approach to the problem. The operation scenario however is preliminarily required and some redundancy solutions are discussed in this article.

Research paper thumbnail of In-Situ Validation of a Wireless Data Acquisition System by Monitoring a Pedestrian Bridge

Advances in Structural Engineering, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Secondary System Analysis for Space Pay-Load

Research paper thumbnail of Hybrid Control Procedures in Mitigating Cable Vibrations

Mechanics and Model-Based Control of Smart Materials and Structures, 2010

Cable vibration control is an active research field in the technical literature. Yet, a robust an... more Cable vibration control is an active research field in the technical literature. Yet, a robust and effective control strategy for cable dynamics is still missing. Indeed, cables exhibit a complex behavior, mainly due to internal resonances and nonlinear couplings. Moreover, most of the control solutions already known in the literature are affected by damper/actuator localization, which significantly impairs their overall

Research paper thumbnail of Stochastic Finite Elements Via Response Surface: Fatigue Crack Growth Problems

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 1997

A stochastic finite element method based on an extended response surface technique is coupled wit... more A stochastic finite element method based on an extended response surface technique is coupled with fracture mechanics concepts to evaluate the lifetime of a cracked structural component subjected to cyclic loading. For a complex structure the relationship between the fracture mechanics parameters and the crack depth can only be obtained by numerical approaches based on the discretization of the continuum into finite elements. As a consequence, any random field describing the stochastic nature of the input parameters has to be discretized into stochastic finite elements. An extended response surface approach is used to characterize in closed form the numerical input-output stochastic relationship. This information is used to define a fatigue crack growth model for the evaluation of the lifetime probability distribution function.

Research paper thumbnail of System Reliability Approach to Safety Analysis of Controlled Structures

Advances in Safety and Reliability, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Reliability analysis of controlled structures

Proceedings Intelligent Information Systems. IIS'97, 1997

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of A neural network approach to structure damage assessment

Proceedings Intelligent Information Systems. IIS'97, 1997

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Pedestrian Timber Bridges: Experimental Investigation and Modelling

Key Engineering Materials, 2013

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Frequency Division Multiplexing Wireless Connection

Abstract—In this paper, a newly designed wireless sensing network platform for structural monitor... more Abstract—In this paper, a newly designed wireless sensing network platform for structural monitoring applications is presented, and the results of a validation test performed in the authors' laboratory are reported. The main features offered by the proposed wireless platform are the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Shape Memory Alloys: Advances in Modelling and Applications

Research paper thumbnail of Adaptive Solution for Intelligent Cable Vibration Mitigation

Advances in Science and Technology, Feb 10, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of Experimental study on hybrid control of multimodal cable vibrations

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Electronic Integrator to Convert Accelerations to Velocities for a Fuzzy Logic Controller

Research paper thumbnail of Use of System Identification Techniques for Damage Assessment and Recovery of Space Truss Structures

Research paper thumbnail of Damage Assessment Toward Performance Control

Research paper thumbnail of System identification toward FEM updating of a super high-rise building

Research paper thumbnail of Energy harvesting and power management of wireless sensors for structural control applications in civil engineering

SMART STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS

The authors' research efforts recently led to the development of a customized wireless contro... more The authors' research efforts recently led to the development of a customized wireless control unit which receives the real-time feedbacks from the sensors, and elaborates the consequent control signal to drive the actuator(s). The controller is wireless in performing the data transmission task, i.e., it receives the signals from the sensors without the need of installing any analogue cable connection between them, but it is powered by wire. The actuator also needs to be powered by wire. In this framework, the design of a power management unit is of interest only for the wireless sensor stations, and it should be adaptable to different kind of sensor requirements in terms of voltage and power consumption. In the present paper, the power management efficiency is optimized by taking into consideration three different kinds of accelerometers, a load cell, and a non-contact laser displacement sensor. The required voltages are assumed to be provided by a power harvesting solution whe...

Research paper thumbnail of Fuzzy Chip Controller Implementation

Structural Control for Civil and Infrastructure Engineering - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Structural Control, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of Implementing a fuzzy controller into an active mass damper device

Proceedings of the 1997 American Control Conference (Cat. No.97CH36041), 1997

Discusses the problems arising in the implementation of a fuzzy controller to control the respons... more Discusses the problems arising in the implementation of a fuzzy controller to control the response of a structural system in a laboratory environment. The goal is to establish a procedure for performing a shaking table laboratory test on a scaled specimen

Research paper thumbnail of Some reliability aspects in structural control

Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2000

The reliability aspects associated with the system made of an actively controlled structure and i... more The reliability aspects associated with the system made of an actively controlled structure and its control devices are discussed. Standard tools of system reliability analysis turns out to be a convenient approach to the problem. The operation scenario however is preliminarily required and some redundancy solutions are discussed in this article.

Research paper thumbnail of In-Situ Validation of a Wireless Data Acquisition System by Monitoring a Pedestrian Bridge

Advances in Structural Engineering, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Secondary System Analysis for Space Pay-Load

Research paper thumbnail of Hybrid Control Procedures in Mitigating Cable Vibrations

Mechanics and Model-Based Control of Smart Materials and Structures, 2010

Cable vibration control is an active research field in the technical literature. Yet, a robust an... more Cable vibration control is an active research field in the technical literature. Yet, a robust and effective control strategy for cable dynamics is still missing. Indeed, cables exhibit a complex behavior, mainly due to internal resonances and nonlinear couplings. Moreover, most of the control solutions already known in the literature are affected by damper/actuator localization, which significantly impairs their overall

Research paper thumbnail of Stochastic Finite Elements Via Response Surface: Fatigue Crack Growth Problems

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 1997

A stochastic finite element method based on an extended response surface technique is coupled wit... more A stochastic finite element method based on an extended response surface technique is coupled with fracture mechanics concepts to evaluate the lifetime of a cracked structural component subjected to cyclic loading. For a complex structure the relationship between the fracture mechanics parameters and the crack depth can only be obtained by numerical approaches based on the discretization of the continuum into finite elements. As a consequence, any random field describing the stochastic nature of the input parameters has to be discretized into stochastic finite elements. An extended response surface approach is used to characterize in closed form the numerical input-output stochastic relationship. This information is used to define a fatigue crack growth model for the evaluation of the lifetime probability distribution function.

Research paper thumbnail of System Reliability Approach to Safety Analysis of Controlled Structures

Advances in Safety and Reliability, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Reliability analysis of controlled structures

Proceedings Intelligent Information Systems. IIS'97, 1997

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of A neural network approach to structure damage assessment

Proceedings Intelligent Information Systems. IIS'97, 1997

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Pedestrian Timber Bridges: Experimental Investigation and Modelling

Key Engineering Materials, 2013

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Frequency Division Multiplexing Wireless Connection

Abstract—In this paper, a newly designed wireless sensing network platform for structural monitor... more Abstract—In this paper, a newly designed wireless sensing network platform for structural monitoring applications is presented, and the results of a validation test performed in the authors' laboratory are reported. The main features offered by the proposed wireless platform are the ...