Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53068#.VLST2MnQrzE Author(s) Chein-Shan Liu , Chih-Wen Chang Affiliation(s) Cloud Computing and System Integration Division, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taichung, Taiwan . Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan . ABSTRACT Earthquake is a violent and irregular ground motion that can severely damage structures. In this paper we subject a single-degree-of-freedom system, consisting of spring and damper, to an earthquake excitation, and meanwhile investigate the response behavior from a novel theory about the dynamical system , by viewing the time-varying signum function...
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