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Chapter and Conference Paper
Validation of Proposed Analytical Model and Design Procedures for Multi-panel CLT Shearwalls Through Experimental Investigation
Multi-panel CLT shearwalls are expected to provide more flexibility and energy dissipation than single-panel walls, mainly due to the contribution of the vertical joints between panels. Despite several analyti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigating the Influence of Openings on the Mechanical Performance of Cross-Laminated Timber Shearwalls
The suitability of using cross-laminated timber (CLT) shearwalls to resist seismic loading has been extensively investigated in recent years, mainly due to their ability to dissipate energy through controlled ...
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Article
Open AccessAn Intrinsic Material Tailoring Approach for Functionally Graded Axisymmetric Hollow Bodies Under Plane Elasticity
One of the main requirements in the design of structures made of functionally graded materials is their best response when used in an actual environment. This optimum behaviour may be achieved by searching for...
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Open AccessA threshold mechanism ensures minimum-path flow in lightning discharge
A well-known property of linear resistive electrical networks is that the current distribution minimizes the total dissipated power. When the circuit includes resistors with nonlinear monotonic characteristic,...
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Conditional stability for backward parabolic operators with Osgood continuous coefficients
We prove continuous dependence on initial data for a backward parabolic operator whose leading coefficients are Osgood continuous in time. This result fills the gap between uniqueness and continuity results ob...
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Evaluation of the displacement ductility for the seismic design of light-frame wood buildings
The research work presented herein deals with the analysis of light-frame wood (LFW) buildings under lateral seismic loading. The paper aim was to define the relationship between the global building ductility ...
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A proposal for the capacity-design at wall- and building-level in light-frame and cross-laminated timber buildings
Due to the brittle nature of wood material, the dissipation of seismic energy in timber structures is typically ensured through yielding of the mechanical connectors, where plastic deformations are developed i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Use of Sound Spectral Analysis for the In Situ Assessment of Structural Timber
This paper focuses on the possibility of using sound spectral analysis as a diagnostic technique for ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Conditional Stability for Backward Parabolic Equations with Osgood Coefficients
The interest of the scientific community for the existence, uniqueness and stability of solutions to PDEs is testified by the numerous works available in the literature. In particular, in some recent publicati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance Evaluation of an LQG Controller of a Robotic Link with Fractional Dampers Based on Their Integer–Order Approximation
Accurate modelling of robotic links may lead to fractional–order descriptions that complicate controller synthesis. This paper explores whether an LQG controller derived for an integer–order approximation can ...
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Article
A Study of History from a Control-Theory Perspective
The dynamics of ancient civilisations according to credited historians can be explained by means of a simple linear time-invariant (LTI) feedback model whose loop only consists of a first-order process and a p...
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On the asymptotic accuracy of reduced-order models
Popular model reduction methods can easily be adapted to retain the asymptotic response to inputs with rational transform. To this purpose, the forced response of the high-order system is decomposed into a tra...
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Shake table tests on a full-scale timber-frame building with gypsum fibre boards
This paper describes the main outcomes of a shake table test on a full-scale light-timber framed building carried out within the framework of the SERIES project at National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (Lis...
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Chapter
On the LPV Control Design and Its Applications to Some Classes of Dynamical Systems
In this chapter, a control design approach based on linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems, which can be exploited to solve several problems typically encountered in control engineering, is presented. By means...
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Chapter
Parametric Gain-scheduling Control via LPV-stable Realization
It has been recently shown that, given a plant described by a parametric transfer function, any compensator that internally stabilizes the plant for each constant value of the parameter can be realized in such...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Switching-Based Lyapunov Function and the Stabilization of a Class of Non-holonomic Systems
This paper describes a sufficient condition, based on a new definition of Lyapunov function for switched systems, for the existence of a time-varying switching control scheme which globally asymptotically stab...
