Towards the goal of protecting acceleration-sensitive equipment, isolated floor systems were subjected to earthquake excitations as well as story level horizontal excitations from representative ...

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Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 103, No. 1 (2020), pp. 1-21 (21 pages) Parallel kinematic machines have been applied in aerospace and automotive manufacturing due to their potentials in high speed and ...

The residuals obtained from fitting a structural equation model are crucial ingredients in obtaining chi-square goodness-of-fit statistics for the model. The authors present a didactic discussion of ...

Keywords: Structural fuse systems. Single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems. Passive hysteretic energy dissipation (PED) devices. Seismic performance. Displacement demands. Flooring systems.