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Topics in Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 31 st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2013, the fourth volume of seven from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:

Modal Parameter Identification for Civil Structures

Vibration Control of Civil Structures

Cable Dynamics

Damage Detection Models for Civil Structures

Data-Driven Health Monitoring of Structures & Infrastructure

Experimental Techniques for Civil Structures

Human-induced Vibrations of Civil Structures

Structural Modeling for Civil Structures

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´Accurate Damping Estimation by Automated OMA Procedures.- Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection.- Improved Substructure Identification through use of an Active Control Device.- Hybrid MPC: An Application to Semiactive Control of Structures.- Findings With AVC Design for Mitigation of Human Induced Vibrations in Office Floors.- Power Requirements for Active Control of Floor Vibrations.- Tuning TMDs to "Fix" Floors in MDOF Shear Buildings.- Precise Stiffness Control With MR Dampers.- Employing Hybrid Tuned Mass Damper to Solve Off-Tuning Problems for Controlling Human Induced Vibration in Stadia.- Semi-active TMD Concept for Volgograd Bridge.- Using Pall Friction Dampers for Seismic Retrofit of a 4-Story Steel Building in Iran.- A new Shape Memory Alloys-based Damping Device Dedicated to Civil Engineering Cables.- Modal Identification of 5-story RC Building Tested on NEES-UCSD Shake Table.- Modal Testing of a Repaired Building After 2010 Chile Earthquake.- System Identification and Displacement Profiles of Multi-span Skewed Bridges With Seat Type Abutments.- Robustness of Modal Parameter Estimation Methods Applied to Lightweight Structures.- A Comparative Study of System Identification Techniques Under Ambient Vibration.- Some Implications of Human-structure Interaction.- Evolution of Dynamic Properties of a 5-Story RC Building During Construction.- Comparison of Damping Models for Space Flight Cables.- Forced 3D Nonlinear Dynamics of a Hanging Cable Under Multiple Resonance Conditions.- Computationally Efficient Design of Semiactive Structural Control in the Presence of Measurement Noise.- Optimal Nonlinear Control Using a Non-quadratic Cost Function for Scalar Systems.- Optimal Sensor Placement With a Statistical Criterion for Subspace-Based Damage Detection.- Application of Efficient Model Correction for Damage Assessment Using Limited Measurements.- Theory Based Sensitivity Analysis and Damage Detection of Steel Roof Sheeting for Hailstone Impact.- A Metric for Modal Truncation in Model Reduction Problems.- On Gramian-based Techniques for Minimal Realization of Large-Scale Mechanical Systems.- Long-Term Dynamic Monitoring of an Offshore Wind Turbine.- An Improved Methodology for Anomaly Detection Based on Time Series Modeling.- Response Surface Model Updating for Nonlinear Structures.- Application of Multivariate Statistically Based Algorithms for Civil Structures Anomaly Detection.- System Identification of a Three-story Precast Concrete Parking Structure.- Structural Damage Localization Using Sensor Cluster Based Regression Schemes.- Structural Dynamic Parameter Identification and the Effect of Test Techniques.- Experimental Results from a Laboratory Test Program to Examine Human-structure Interaction.- Experimental Validation on a Continuous Modulated Wave-form Command Shaping Applied on Damped Systems.- Diagnosis of Building Vibration Sources via Time-frequency Analysis.- Medial-Lateral Gait Patterns in Healthy Adult Walkers.- Quantifying Differences Between Walking Locomotion on Rigid and Flexible Pavements.- Using MSD Model to Simulate Human-structure Interaction During Walking.- Effect of Sensory Stimuli on Dynamic Loading Induced by People Bouncing.- Design and Construction of a Very Lively Bridge.- Mitigation of Wind-induced Noise of Balcony Railings in a Condominium Building.- Operational Modal Analysis of a Slender Footbridge to Serviceability purposes.- Operating Deflection Shapes from Strain Measurement Data.- Optimal Sensor Placement for Structural Health Monitoring of Power Transmission Tower-Line Systems.- Evaluation of Economical Dynamic Exciters for Vibration Testing of Bridges.- Assessment of Floor Vibrations for Building Re-Use: A Case Study.- Quantification of Damping Effect of Humans on Lightly Damped Staircases.- Robust Design Optimization of Steel Moment Resisting Frame Under Groun

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