Industrial machines like punching machines and presses can generate structure-borne impact noise, with noise levels exceeding the tresholds, imposed by legal regulations on noise emission. This paper presents an approach of non-collocated active structural acoustic control of transient noise, produced by a repetitive impact excitation. Although there is a significant difference in nature betwee...

Inspired by the study of control scenarios in elections and complementing manipulation and bribery settings in cooperative games with transferable utility, we introduce the notion of structural control in weighted voting games. We model two types of influence, adding players to and deleting players from a game, with goals such as increasing a given player’s Shapley–Shubik or probabilistic Penro...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are crucial gene expression regulators and first-order suspects in the development and progression of many diseases. Comparative analysis of cancer cell expression data highlights many deregulated miRNAs. Low expression of miR-125a was related to poor breast cancer prognosis. Interestingly, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in miR-125a was located within a minor allele e...

This work addresses the design and application of robust controllers for structural acoustic control. Both simulation and experimental results are presented. H∞ and μ-synthesis design methods were used to design feedback controllers which minimize power radiated from a panel while avoiding instability due to unmodeled dynamics. Specifically, highorder structural modes which couple strongly to t...

1Department of Civil Engineering; Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; Mathematics; and Information and Operations Management; University of Southern California; Los Angeles; CA 90089-1453; U.S.A. 2Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering; University of Southern California; Los Angeles; CA 90089-1453; U.S.A. 3Structural Analysis and Research Corporation; 5000 McKnight Road; Pittsburg...

The stochastic optimal control is an important research subject in structural engineering. Recently, a stochastic optimal nonlinear control method has been proposed based on the stochastic dynamical programming principle and stochastic averaging method. The active and semi-active stochastic optimal control methods have been further developed for structural systems. The control saturation or bou...

In recent years, substantial research has been conducted to advance structural control as a direct means of mitigating the dynamic response of civil structures. In parallel to these efforts, the structural engineering field is currently exploring low-cost wireless sensors for use in structural monitoring systems. To reduce the labor and costs associated with installing extensive lengths of coax...

We perform a structural estimation of the preference parameters in a buffer-stock consumption model augmented with temptation disutility. We adopt a two-stage Method of Simulated Moments methodology to match our simulated moments with those observed in the US Survey of Consumer Finances. To identify the parameters we use liquid and quasi-liquid (retirement) wealth holdings at different ages as ...

This study firstly proposes some representative simple methods to obtain the suboptimal passive damping and stiffness parameters from the optimal control gain matrix since it is not possible to add the exact optimal damping and stiffness parameters to the structure in practice. It is shown numerically that modifying the structural damping and the stiffness in the proposed suboptimal ways may su...

has taken the challenging task to define an ambitious yet realistic vision of an improved integrated intelligent system for 2010 and beyond. One of SAMCO's main missions is to elaborate a strategic research agenda defining priorities and roadmaps with the ambition that it will serve as a reference for the definition of future research plans. SAMCO in combination with I-SAMCO has brought around ...