Quality of Translucent Building Structures: Control Technologies

Semi-active Control of Building Structures using Variable Stiffness Device and Fuzzy Logic

Semi-active control devices, also called “Intelligent” control devices, constitute the positive aspects of both the passive and active control devices. A semi-active control strategy is similar to the active control strategy, but this control device has been shown to be more energy-efficient than active devices. A particular type of semi-active control device, the Variable Stiffness Device (VSD...

A Survey of Control Technologies in the Building Automation Industry

Advances in technology infrastructure such as communications, processing power, and data storage over the past several years have created new opportunities for the application of control and automation to many types of systems including those in buildings. This paper describes the state of the art for control in the building automation industry, and reviews new and emerging technologies. Issues...

Low-Cost Quality Control and Nondestructive Evaluation Technologies for General Aviation Structures

Evaluation of E-Trust Building Structures Interact With Transportation

Transportation industry is the most dynamic components of any society. In the twenty-first century, with the growth of technology and the widespread use of the Internet and the emergence of e-commerce and e-business interaction and active transportation industry deserves to have a wide range of electronic services to the transportation community to take advantage of the investors of the new and...

Seismic Response of Building Structures with Sliding Non-structural Elements

Interaction between a structure under base excitation and heavy non-structural elements that it supports is significant in the seismic analysis and design of the structure. Heavy non-structural elements may slide/rock under base excitation, and this dynamic action affects the seismic behavior of the supporting structure. Hence, in this study, a numerical model was presented to describe the seis...