Control of seismic-excited buildings using active variable stiffness systems

Engineering Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 589-596

  Yang, J N ^a   Wu, J C ^a   Li, Z ^a  

^a University of California Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Active variable stiffness systems; Buildings; Seismic excitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000417859     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0141-0296(95)00175-1     Document Type: Article

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