9th World Conference on Continuing Engineering Education

The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Semi-active control devices have been shown to be more energy efficient than active devices and more effective in reducing seismic structural vibration than passive devices. A new type of semi-active control device, the piezoelectric friction damper has been made in this paper. Piezoelectric actuators used in the dampers can quickly and accurately respond to a voltage signal. They are also effe...

The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

The ability to monitor the health of an instrumented structure, detect damage as it occurs, and issue an early warning during or soon after the earthquake (or some other natural or man made disaster), and before physical inspection is possible, has significant potential benefits in reducing loss of life and injuries, in emergency response, and in recovery following the disaster. The timeliness ...

9th German Conference on Chemoinformatics

The 8th German Conference on Chemoinformatics (GCC2012) was held from the 11 to the 13 of November 2012 in Goslar, Germany and addressed a broad range of current research topics in the realm of computers and chemistry. The CIC division of the Gernan Chemical Society (GDCh) [1] invited the chemoinformatics and molecular modelling community to the GCC2012 to discuss trends and recent developments...

First World Conference on Medical Education

The 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering

A self adaptive particle filter method for structural system identification is presented in this paper. Such an adaptive technique that uses statistical methods to adapt the number of particles at each iteration. This method improves the efficiency of state estimation by adapting the size of sample sets during the estimation process through KLD-Sampling. Within this adaptation process the numbe...