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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 72
IDENTIFICATION, CONTROL AND OPTIMISATION OF ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
Edited by: G. De Roeck and B.H.V. Topping

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Preliminaries
1DAMAGE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION AS AN INVERSE PROBLEM  
1.1 Modal Damping as a Damage Detection Parameter in Reinforced Concrete Structures
J.M. Ndambi, J. Vantomme and J. De Visscher
1
1.2 A High Performance Structure Identification Environment
K.M. Bossley, M.C. Sell and N.K. Allsopp
9
2CONTROL OF STRUCTURES AND SMART STRUCTURES  
2.1 Robust Adaptive Control of Robots by Stochastic Optimization Methods
K. Marti
15
2.2 Numerical Analysis and Testing of the ADAS Device for Seismic Response Control of Steel Structures
M. Tehranizadeh
29
2.3 Vibration Damping of a Flexible Mechanism using an Energy Approach
M.A. Karkoub and M. Zribi
41
2.4 Modelling of Smart Structures with Colocated Piezoelectric Actuator / Sensor Pairs: Influence of the In-plane Components
V. Piefort and K. Henrioulle
47
2.5 A Study of Optimal Control for Free Surface Flow and Structure based on Finite Element Method
H. Ogawa and M. Kawahara
59
2.6 Characterization Tests of New Aluminium and Steel Energy Dissipating Devices
D. Foti and R. Nobile
65
3STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION  
3.1 Mixed Discrete and Integer Structural Optimization using Generalized Hopfield Network based Sequential Unconstrained Mimimization Technique with Additional Penalty Strategy
C.J. Shih and Y.C. Yang
73
3.2 Quadratic Programming Solver for Large-Scale Structural Optimization using SQP Algorithm
B. Horowitz and S.M.B. Afonso
79
3.3 Optimum Design of Structures with Discrete Variables using Approximation Concepts
E. Salajegheh and J. Salajegheh
85
4TOPOLOGICAL DESIGN OPTIMISATION  
4.1 Topological Design Solutions for Structures under Transmissible Loads
M.B. Fuchs and E. Moses
95
4.2 An Efficient Fully Stressed Approach for Topographical Design of Structures
C-Y. Lin and L-S. Chao
101
4.3 Topological Operators to Improve Finite Element Analysis Geometry Adaptation
L. Fine, L. Remondini and J-C. Leon
107
5SHAPE OPTIMISATION  
5.1 Shape Optimization to Minimize Stress Concentration in Shell Structures
B. Wilczynski
119
5.2 A Shape Optimization Technique by Finite Element Simulation of Durelli's Method of Photoelastic Stress Minimization
V. Nguyen and D. Tran
133
5.3 Shape Optimization for Structures from Quasi-Brittle Materials Subject to Cyclic Loads
N. Banichuk, M.M. Mäkelä and P. Neittaanmäki
145
5.4 A Self-Designing Structural Method for Two-Dimensional Shape Optimal Design with Stress Constraints
K.H. Lim and J.W. Bull
153
6PARALLEL STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION  
6.1 An Efficient Parallel Global Optimization Infrastructure for Composite Structures
J.F. Schutte, H.P.J. Bolton, C. Erasmus, S. Geyer and A.A. Groenwold
161

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