The topic of "structural control", which had already experienced some attention through publications, for example by Roorda, Yao, Yang, Abdel-Rohman, Leipholz etc. , mostly in journals of ASCE, was given its fIrst international forum at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, via an ruTMf - Symposium held in June, 1979. This very successful event gathered experts from a variety of technical and theoretical domains in which control plays tradi tionally an essential role and was meant to present the new idea of structural control to a broad audience, thus triggering interest and commitment as well as cross-fertilization. However, the peculiarities of structural control were already sumciently well pointed out and stressed by those participants of the symposium who had devoted themselves earlier to this specwc topic for some time. The result of presentations and discussions are collected in a set of Proceedings entitled "Structural Control", published by North - Holland Publishing Company and the Solid Mechanics Division (SMD) of the University of Waterloo. The stimulation following this fIrst symposium was quite noticeable in the literature and led to the conviction of many researchers that after a reasonable period of time, a second meeting should be held to collect the fruits produced by the intermediate efforts of those working with increased emphasis on structural control. Therefore, Professors J. T. P. Yao, Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University and H. H. E.

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University of Waterloo, Canada

H. H. E. Leipholz

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Book Title: Structural Control
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Structural Control, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, July 15–17, 1985
Editors: H. H. E. Leipholz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3525-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1987
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3429-0Due: 31 July 1987
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8075-0Published: 03 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3525-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 788
Number of Illustrations: 110 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Classical Mechanics, Civil Engineering, Systems Theory, Control

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Front Matter

The Feasibility of Active Control of Tall Buildings

A Controllability-Stabilizability Result for the NASA-IEEE Spacecraft Control Laboratory Experiment (S.C.O.L.E) Configuration

Identification of Structural Systems Using Walsh Functions

Compatibility Aspects of Active Control Technologies with Aircraft Structure Design

Stabilization of Structures under Non-Conservative Loads

An Active Protection System for Wind Induced Vibrations of Pipe-Line Suspension Bridges

The Past and Future of Seismic Effectiveness of Tuned Mass Dampers

Active Minimisation of Vibrational Energy in Periodically Excited Structures

On-Line Parameter Control of Nonlinear Flexible Structures

Passive Structural Control by Means of Connections with Adaptable Parameters

Increase in Efficiency and Reliability of Load Bearing Members by Active Deformation Control

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