Articles
System Identification of Base-Isolated Building using Seismic Response Data (with T. Furukawa, M. Ito, and K. Izawa), Journal of Engineering Mechanics (2005)
Due to the complex nature of the excitation, and the inherent dynamics characteristics of restoring...
Improvement Of Parameter Estimation for Non-Linear Hysteretic Systems With Slip By A Fast Bayesian Bootstrap Filter (with S. J. Li and Yoshiyuki Suzuki), International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2004)
Modeling and identification of non-linear hysteretic systems are widely encountered in the structural dynamics field,...
An intelligent parameter varying (IPV) approach for non-linear system identification of base excited structures (with Soheil Saadat, Gregory D. Buckner, and Tadatoshi Furukawa), International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2004)
Health monitoring and damage detection strategies for base-excited structures typically rely on accurate models of...
Identification of Hysteretic Systems With Slip Using Bootstrap Filter (with S. J. Li and Yoshiyuki Suzuki), Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (2004)
Hysteretic models with slip are frequently used to predict the non-linear behaviour of many structural...
Structural health monitoring and damage detection using an intelligent parameter varying (IPV) technique (with Soheil Saadat, Gregory D. Buckner, Tadatoshi Furukawa, and Yoshiyuki Suzuki), International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2004)
Most structural health monitoring and damage detection strategies utilize dynamic response information to identify the...
Estimation of Wind Load on Structures (with Soheil Saadat, Fuh-Gwo Yuan, and Gregory D. Buckner), Proceedings of the 15th Annual ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference 2002: New York, New York (2002)
Accurate spatial and temporal estimation of wind loads on structures plays an important role in...
Direct Stochastic Equivalent Linearization of SDOF Smart Mechanical System (with L. Duval and S. Seelecke), Proceedings of the 8th ASCE Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability: South Bend, Indiana (2000)
The first and second moments of response variables for SDOF system with pseudoelastic material are...
Wavelet-Based Approach for Structural Damage Detection (with Z. Hou and R. St. Amand), Journal of Engineering Mechanics (2000)
A wavelet-based approach is proposed for structural damage detection and health monitoring. Characteristics of representative...
Operator Split Technique Applied to Random Vibration of Smart SDOF Mechanical Systems (with L. Duval and M. A. Savi), Proceedings of the 14th Annual ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division 2000: Austin, Texas (2000)
A significant amount of research in the last few years has greatly advanced the field...
Random vibration studies of an SDOF system with shape memory restoring force (with L. Duval, Z. Hou, H. Davoodi, and S. Seelecke), Physica B: Condensed Matter (2000)
Intelligent and adaptive material systems and structures have become very important in engineering applications. The...
Collaborative Undergraduate Research (with Hamid Davoodi, Frederick Just, Ali Saffar, and William W. Durgin), 29th Annual ASEE/IEEE Frontiers In Education Conference Proceedings (1999)
A joint undergraduate research project between University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez (UPRM) and Worcester...
Letters to the Editor: Filtering Property of a Lightly Damped System, Subjected to Transient Excitation (with M. F. Dimentberg), Journal of Sound and Vibration (1999)
Discovery of Design Methodologies (with Cirrus Shakeri and David C. Brown), WPI-CS-TR-99-28, Computer Science Department, WPI, Worcester, MA (1999)
In this paper we present an AI-based approach for the discovery of design methodologies for...
Discovering Methodologies for Integrated Product Design (with Cirrus Shakeri and David C. Brown), Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Madison, Wisconsin (1998)
The current methodologies for multi-disciplinary product design are based on compromising between different disciplines rather...
Stability and Performance of Feedback Control Systems with Time Delays (with M. S. Ali and Z. K. Hou), Computers and Structures (1998)
This paper investigates the time delay effects on the stability and performance of active feedback...
A Model For General Periodic Excitation With Random Disturbance and its Application (with Y. K. Zhou, Z. K. Hou, and M. F. Dimentberg), Journal of Sound and Vibration (1997)
Many vibration problems involve a general periodic excitation such as those of a triangular or...
Random Response to Periodic Excitation with Correlated Disturbances (with Zhikun Hou, Yunshen Zhou, and Mikhail F. Dimentberg), Journal of Engineering Mechanics (1996)
The paper addresses non-Gaussian stationary response of linear single-degree-of-freedom (SnOF) systems subject to a periodic...
Application of an Itô-based approximation method to random vibration of a pinching hysteretic system (with Mark D. Padua and Hamid Davoodi), Nonlinear Dynamics (1992)
In this paper, an extension of the Cumulant-Neglect closure scheme is utilized for the random...