the knee bracing steel frame (kbf) is a new type of energy dissipating frame which enjoys exceptional ductility and lateral stiffness. rather than the beam-column joint, one end of the diagonal brace in kbf is attached to the knee element. indeed, the knee element as a hysteretic damper is designed and detailed to behave like a structural fuse by sustaining controlled inelastic deformations as ...

In this note we present results for nonlinear and hysteretic constitutive laws for lled elastomers. Theoretical, computational and experimental results are given.

State-of-the-art microprocessors as well as Digital-Signal Processing (DSP) circuits demand power supplies to be quick, accurate, and capable of delivering high currents. Additionally, portable battery-powered applications, like laptop computers, require these Integrated Circuits (IC's) to be power efficient to extend battery life. In terms of speed, which also translates to accuracy, of course...