Systems of rigid rods acquire rigidity via the addition of random additional rods and cables, as captured via a graph theory. The research team's main object of study, shown here, is structures that ...

Keywords: Earthquake engineering, cable dynamics; nonlinear dynamics; flexible bus conductors; earthquake excitation; tensegrity; complementarity Abstract: The use of cables may be seen in different ...

In 2011, a series of three storms passed through western Massachusetts and resulted in extended outages on a 69-kV transmission line in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S. In June 2011, an ...