this study contains the identification of modal dynamic properties of a 3-story large-scale steel test frame structure through shaking table measurements. shaking table test is carried out to estimate the modal properties of the test frame such as natural frequencies, damping ratios and mode shapes. among many different model structures, arx (auto recursive exogenous) model structure is used fo...

In many of the world's leading corporations, strategic thinking has outdistanced organizational capability. As business challenges have grown more complex over the past 20 years, most companies have avoided the trap of one-dimensional strategic responses-stick to your knitting, stick to the big markets. But many of them have fallen into a second, structural trap and adopted elaborate organizati...

Two years have passed since you did me the unforgettable honour of electing me to the office of President, and, before I hand over the reins of office to my successor, it behoves me to render some account of my stewardship. In the first place, may I sound a personal note and thank you for all the enjoyment which the duties and privileges of my office have brought to me? In so far as the duties ...