There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

[신간의 별자리x] 우리/미술, 그리고 ‘슬픔의 박물관’

System Identification I

Dynamics of structures

: This thesis applies neural network feature selection techniques to multivariate time series data to improve prediction of a target time series. Two approaches to feature selection are used. First, a subset enumeration method is used to determine which financial indicators are most useful for aiding in prediction of the S&P 500 futures daily price. The candidate indicators evaluated include RSI, Stochastics and several moving averages. Results indicate that the Stochastics and RSI indicators result in better prediction results than the moving averages. The second approach to feature selection is calculation of individual saliency metrics. A new decision boundary-based individual saliency metric, and a classifier independent saliency metric are developed and tested. Ruck's saliency metric, the decision boundary based saliency metric, and the classifier independent saliency metric are compared for a data set consisting of the RSI and Stochastics indicators as well as delayed closing price values. The decision based metric and the Ruck metric results are similar, but the classifier independent metric agrees with neither of the other metrics. The nine most salient features, determined by the decision boundary based metric, are used to train a neural network and the results are presented and compared to other published results. (AN)

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Nonlinear Time Series Analysis.

This study focuses on the correlations between the structural dynamic properties and the instantaneous response characteristics of a 492-m high building during a typhoon. An instantaneous analysis framework is established based on a combined usage of both linear-phase filtering and time–frequency techniques. This analysis framework can separate each modal response contribution without phase distortions. Random decrement technique is used to estimate the modal damping ratios. It is found that beating phenomenon widely exists in the separated modal response contributions, and the damping ratios correlate with the modulation of phase and amplitude within the beating closely. When the beating amplitude comes close to zero, the instantaneous frequency fluctuates evidently. The more intensive this fluctuation is, the larger the damping ratio becomes. An empirical model is presented to formulate the variations of damping ratio and natural frequency of this building with the fluctuation intensity of the instantan...

Time–frequency analysis of structural dynamic characteristics of tall buildings

A proper understanding of marine wind characteristics is of essential importance across a wide range of engineering applications. While the offshore wind speed and turbulence characteristics have been examined extensively, the knowledge of wind veer (i.e., turning of wind with height) is much less understood and discussed. This paper presents an investigation of marine wind field with particular emphasis on wind veer characteristics. Extensive observations from a light detection and ranging (Lidar) system at an offshore platform in Hong Kong were examined to characterize the wind veer profiles up to a height of 180 m. The results underscored the occurrence of marine wind veer, with a well-defined two-fold vertical structure. The observed maximum wind veer angle exhibits a reverse correlation with mean wind speed, which decreases from 2.47° to 0.59° for open-sea terrain, and from 7.45° to 1.92° for hilly terrain. In addition, seasonal variability of wind veer is apparent, which is most pronounced during spring and winter due to the frequent occurrence of the low-level jet. The dependence of wind veer on atmospheric stability is evident, particularly during winter and spring. In general, neutral stratification reveals larger values of wind veer angle as compared to those in stable and unstable stratification conditions.

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Investigation of Marine Wind Veer Characteristics Using Wind Lidar Measurements

A new method for the determination of membrane forces acting on box girder bridges considering shear lag effect is proposed in this paper. A box girder is divided into four thin plate elements: top plate, bottom plate, cantilever and web. Using the equilibrium conditions of the plates, the membrane force equation for each plate element is established. The analytical formulas for calculating the membrane normal, transverse and shear forces of each plate element considering shear lag effect are derived. The proposed method is easy to implement in the design of thin-walled box girders considering shear lag effect. Through examples using the high order finite strip element method and the experiment, the results obtained by the proposed method are examined and the accuracy of the proposed method is verified. The discussions on the shear lag effect on the membrane forces acting on cantilever box girders are given considering the variations of span to width ratio, width to height ratio and various loading conditions.

Membrane forces acting on thin-walled box girders considering shear lag effect

Decision framework for optimal installation of outriggers in tall buildings

Optimal placement of actuators in actively controlled structures is a mixed-discrete optimization problem; it has the characteristics of nonlinear, non-continuous, and so on. For this type of optim...

Qiusheng Li

Papers

Time–frequency analysis of structural dynamic characteristics of tall buildings

Investigation of Marine Wind Veer Characteristics Using Wind Lidar Measurements

Membrane forces acting on thin-walled box girders considering shear lag effect

Decision framework for optimal installation of outriggers in tall buildings

Optimum design of actively controlled structures using genetic algorithms