Download or read book Proceedings of the First European Conference on Structural Control, Barcelona, Spain, May 29-31, 1996 written by Alessandro Baratta and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Structural control offers opportunities to design new structures and to retrofit existing structures by the application of counter-forces, smart materials, frictional devices, etc., instead of just increasing the strength of the structure at greater cost. The Association for the Control of Structures (ACS) is promoting in Europe the development of this new technology in architectural design and infrastructure renewal and rehabilitation. The First European Conference on Structural Control was organized as one of the major initiatives toward this objective."--Publisher's website.