556 research outputs found

    Monitoring a steel building using GPS sensors

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    To assess the performance of a structure requires the measurement of global and relative displacements at critical points across the structure. They should be obtained in real time and in all weather condition. A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) could satisfy the last two requirements. The American Global Position System (GPS) provides long term acquisitions with sampling rates sufficient to track the displacement of long period structures. The accuracy is of the order of sub centimetres. The steel building which hosts the author

    Toward a hybrid control solution for cable dynamics: Theoretical prediction and experimental validation.

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    Cable dynamics is a widely explored field in the technical literature. Particularly, the mechanics of cables is caught either by numeric or analytic models that are able to predict the nonlinear dynamic response of these structural elements with the desired level of approximation. However, efforts are still required in the field of cable vibration mitigation to conceive economical, feasible and robust control strategies
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