Comfort, reliability, functionality performance which provide a longer life cycle requires thourogh understanding and analysis of the vibrations, this is a general rule for most of the static and dynamic when studying the functionality performance of any application. Vibrations is an extremely important issue to consider when designing various systems.The hysteresis in the dampers is very impor...

To my grandparents. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my adviser, Nicholas P. Carter, for his guidance and support all through my graduate study. Many thanks to my project team members, Hillery C. Hunter and Azmat Hussain, who have contributed to this work in many ways. Also thanks to Wen-Mei Hwu for his guidance in the Memory-Efficient EPIC Architecture project. Thanks to the Semicondu...

The occurrence of catastrophic earthquakes necessitates further researches in the structure engineering for retrofitting construction structures. In this paper, the application of the active control in the structures’ seismic response has been addressed. A single degree of freedom nonlinear structure has been studied. The nonlinear dynamic of the structure is considered in which, the nonlinear ...

Since 1976 Hilary Putnam has drawn parallels between his ‘internal’, ‘pragmatic’, ‘natural’ or ‘common-sense’ realism and Kant’s transcendental idealism. Putnam reads Kant as rejecting the then current metaphysical picture with its in-built assumptions of a unique, mind-independent world, and truth understood as correspondence between the mind and that ready-made world. Putnam reads Kant as ove...

This paper investigates the nano-positioning control for a piezoelectric actuator system with states time-delay via multiple Lyapunov functions. The multiple Lyapunov functions can relax stabilization conditions derived by the traditional single Lyapunov function. First, the Bouc-Wen equation establishes the mathematical model of a piezoelectric actuator system. To reduce the nonlinear hysteres...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique has achieved a considerable success in solving nonlinear, nondifferentiable, multi-modal optimization problems. Currently, PSO is broadly applied in several scientific and engineering optimization applications. This paper introduces an identification of magnetorheological (MR) damper’s parameters using the PSO algorithm to introduce a more simple and ...

The distribution of quality characteristic of a product is usually assumed to be known. In some situation, the quality characteristic of a product cannot be measured directly. It needs to be measured by controlling another factor. Wen and Mergen (1999) presented a method for determining the optimum process mean in order to minimize the expected total loss of a product. However, they have not co...