Special Section    : Papers at the 4th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration (ISEV 2009)

From the editors 

Running safety analysis of a train on the Tsing Ma Bridge under turbulent winds

Guo Weiwei, Xia He and Xu Youlin

Accumulative deformation in railway track induced by high-speed traffic loading of the trains

Bian Xuecheng, Jiang Hongguang and Chen Yunmin Hsiao-Hui Hung and Y. B. Yang

Attenuation of ground vibrations due to different technical sources

L. Auersch and S. Said

Magneto-rheological elastomer (MRE) based composite structures for micro-vibration control

YQ Ni, ZG Ying and ZH Chen

 Technical Papers

Response spectra for nuclear structures on rock sites considering the near-fault directivity effect

Xu Longjun, Yang Shengchao and Xie Lili.

Analytical solutions to nonlinear conservative oscillator with fifth-order nonlinearity

M. G. Sfahani, S.S. Ganji, A. Barari, H. Mirgolbabaei and G. Domairry

Parameter identification of hysteretic model of rubber-bearing based on sequential nonlinear least-square estimation

Yin Qiang, Zhou Li and Wang Xinming

Anti-plane (SH) waves diffraction by an underground semi-circular cavity: analytical solution

Luo Hao, Vincent W. Lee and Liang Jianwen

Evaluation of FEMA-440 for including soil-structure interaction

Khoshnoudian F and Behmanesh I

Comparison of capability of time integration methods in capturing dynamic loading

Shuenn-Yih Chang, Chi-Wei Hsu and Ting-Wei Chen

Delay-dependent stability and added damping of SDOF real-time dynamic hybrid testing

Chi Fudong, Wang Jinting and Jin Feng

Seismic performance of steel reinforced ultra high-strength concrete composite frame joints

Yan Changwang and Jia Jinqing

Mechanical and low-cycle fatigue behavior of stainless reinforcing steel for earthquake engineering applications

Yihui Zhou, Yu-Chen Ou, George C. Lee and Jerome S. O’Connor 

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