RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON SMART STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS IN U.S.-JAPAN COOPERATIVE STRUCTURAL TESTING PROGRAM

Shunsuke OTANI, Akira WADA, Yoshikazu KITAGAWA, Takafumi FUJITA, Mitsumasa MIDORIKAWA, Masanori IIBA, Masaomi TESHIGAWARA
2004 Journal of Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering  
The Building Research Institute (BRI) launched a 5-year research and development project on Smart Materials and Structural Systems in 1998 as part of U.S.-Japan cooperative research efforts. Smart Structural Systems also called as Auto-adaptive Media are defined as systems that can automatically adjust structural characteristics, in response to the change by external disturbances and environments, toward structural safety and serviceability as well as the elongation of structural service life.
more » ... mart materials and systems have been developed and studied.
doi:10.5610/jaee.4.3_378 fatcat:swqmk3wxqfginkkhep5whlh26a