Nicholas Fisco

TL;DR: In this article, a review of active and semi-active control of smart building systems is presented, focusing on the literature published since 1997, including active tuned mass dampers, distributed actuators, active tendon systems and active coupled building systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed significant work done on active and semi-active vibration control of structures performed in the past decade or so, and reviewed improved or new control strategies developed for civil structures.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the macrotexture and friction was investigated using five different testing methods including sand patch method, laser profiler, laser texture scanner, circular texture meter, and x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning.

TL;DR: In this paper, mean profile depth measurements from three laser-based macrotexture measuring devices, including a laser profiler, a laser texture scanner and a circular texture meter, were compared with mean texture depth obtained from volumetric sand patch tests.