<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:1170px"><h1 class="gmail-headline gmail-headline-learning" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:30px;margin:20px 0px;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;color:inherit;text-transform:uppercase"><span class="gmail-hl-learning" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(165,164,164)">MULTI-AGENT REPLICATOR CONTROL METHODOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">VIBRATION CONTROL OF SMART BUILDING AND BRIDGE STRUCTURES</h1><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;font-size:24px;text-transform:uppercase">NHERI LEHIGH SEMINAR SERIES<br style="box-sizing:border-box">OCTOBER 23, 2017 | NOON - 1PM EST</h2></div></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-col-xs-12 gmail-col-md-7" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;float:left;width:682.5px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;color:rgb(77,78,78);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:19px">ABSTRACT</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><b style="box-sizing:border-box">Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, PhD<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Assistant Professor, The University of Kentucky</b></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The protection of infrastructure is a critical and complex issue faced by civil engineers. Earthquakes are especially unpredictable and pose a great threat to critical infrastructure. To tackle this problem, the latest innovation is the development of smart structures. Smart structures have technology installed to dampen the vibration caused by forces of nature. The goal is to develop a new generation of smart structures equipped with sensors and control devices that can react in real-time during an earthquake. Structural control methods have been subject of significant research, yet they still face limitations that this research overcomes by introducing the concepts of decentralized control, agent technology, and replicator dynamics.</p></div></div>
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