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2008

K. H. Law, A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, and Y. Wang, "Wireless Sensing and Structural Control Strategies," ANCRiSST 2008, The Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technologies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, June 24 - 25, 2008.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, A. Swartz, K.-C. Lu, and C.-H. Loh, "Implementation of a Closed-Loop Structural Control System using Wireless Sensor Networks," Journal of Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Wiley, 15(4): 518-539, 2008.

Y. Wang, A. Swartz, A. Zimmerman, A. Askin, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, "Decentralized Wireless Structural Sensing and Control with Multiple System Architectures Operating at Different Sampling Frequencies," Proceedings of SPIE, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems II, 6935, San Diego, CA, USA, March 9 - 13, 2008.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, and K. H. Law, "Decentralized H Controller Design for Large-scale Civil Structures," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, Wiley, submitted.

2007

C.-H. Loh, J. P. Lynch, K.-C. Lu, Y. Wang, T.-H. Yeh, C.-M. Chang, and P.-Y. Lin, "Experimental Verification of Wireless Sensing and Control System for Structural Control using MR-Dampers," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics , Wiley, 36(10): 1303-1328, 2007.

K. J. Loh, J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, K. H. Law, M. Fraser, A. Elgamal, " Validation of a Wireless Traffic Vibration Monitoring System for the Voigt Bridge," Proceedings of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Chongqing & Nanjing, China, May 22 - 27, 2007.

H. W. Park, H. Sohn, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Time Reversal Active Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring of a Composite Plate," Journal of Sound and Vibration, Elsevier, 302:50-66, 2007.

Y. Wang, Wireless Sensing and Decentralized Control for Civil Structures: Theory and Implementation, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 2007.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, "A Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System with Multithreaded Sensing Devices: Design and Validation," Structure and Infrastructure Engineering - Maintenance, Management and Life-Cycle Design & Performance, Taylor & Francis, 3(2):103-120, 2007.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, " Wireless Sensing Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Monitoring and Management," Proceedings of the 5th International Seminar for Safety of Infrastructures, 54-96, KISTEC (Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation), Seoul, Korea, September 14, 2007.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, " Decentralized H∞ Controller Design for Large-scale Wireless Structural Sensing and Control Systems," Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 11 - 13, 2007.

Y. Wang, K. J. Loh, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, "Wireless Sensing and Control," Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, Harbin, China, July 1 - 4, 2007.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, " Information Driven Wireless Sensing and Control for Civil Structures," Proceedings of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology, Chongqing & Nanjing, China, May 22 - 27, 2007.

Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, C.-H. Loh, "Performance Evaluation of Decentralized Wireless Sensing and Control in Civil Structures," Proceedings of the SPIE 14th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, March 18 - 22, 2007.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, C.-H. Loh, A. Elgamal, "Reliable Information Management in a Low-cost Wireless Structural Monitoring and Control Network," Proceedings of the SPIE 14th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, USA, March 18 - 22, 2007.

Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, " Decentralized Civil Structural Control using Real-time Wireless Sensing and Embedded Computing," Smart Structures and Systems, Techno Press, 3(3):321-340, 2007.

2006

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, K. J. Loh, J.-H. Yi, C.-B. Yun, "Performance Monitoring of the Geumdang Bridge using a Dense Network of High-resolution Wireless Sensors," Smart Materials and Structures, IOP, 15(6):1561-1575, 2006.

Y. Wang, K. J. Loh, J. P. Lynch, M. Fraser, K. H. Law, A. Elgamal, "Vibration Monitoring of the Voigt Bridge using Wired and Wireless Monitoring Systems," Proceedings of the 4th China-Japan-US Symposium on Structural Control and Monitoring, Hangzhou, China, October16-17, 2006.

Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, "Application of Decentralized Wireless Sensing and Control in Civil Structures," Proceedings of the US-Taiwan Workshop on Smart Structural Technology for Seismic Hazard Mitigation, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12-14, 2006.

K.-C. Lu, Y.-S. Yang, C.-H. Loh, J. P. Lynch, and K. H. Law, "Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Diagnosis: Based on Embedded Algorithm and Visualized User Interface," Proceedings of the US-Taiwan Workshop on Smart Structural Technology for Seismic Hazard Mitigation, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12-14, 2006.

Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, "Decentralized Real-time Velocity Feedback Control of Structures using Wireless Sensors," Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Taipei, Taiwan, October 12-13, 2006.

Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, "Decentralized Civil Structural Control using a Real-time Wireless Sensing and Control System," Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, CA, July 11-13, 2006.

C.-H. Loh, K.-C. Lu, Y. Wang, R. A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, and P. Y. Lin, " Discussion on the Application of Wireless Active Sensing Unit for Structural Control," Proceedings of the 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, CA, July 11-13, 2006.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, and K. H. Law, " Wireless Sensing, Actuation and Control -- with Applications to Civil Structures," Proceedings of the 13th EG-ICE Workshop, Ascona, Switzerland, pp. 670-689, June 25-30, 2006.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, K.-C. Lu, T.-C. Hou, and C.-H. Loh, "Post-seismic Damage Assessment of Steel Structures Instrumented with Self-interrogating Wireless Sensors," Proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 18 - 22, 2006.

K.-C. Lu, Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, C.-H. Loh, Y.-J. Chen, P.-Y. Lin, Z.-K. Lee, "Ambient Vibration Study of the Gi-Lu Cable-Stay Bridge: Application of Wireless Sensing Units," Proceedings of the SPIE 13th Annual Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, USA, February 26 - March 2, 2006.

Y. Wang, A. Swartz, J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, K.-C. Lu, C.-H. Loh, "Wireless Feedback Structural Control with Embedded Computing," Proceedings of the SPIE 11th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, USA, February 26 - March 2, 2006.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, K. J. Loh, J. Yi, and C.-B. Yun, "Wireless Structural Monitoring of the Geumdang Bridge using Resolution Enhancing Signal Conditioning," Proceedings of the 24th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XXIV), St. Louis, MO, January 30 - February 2, 2006.

H. Sohn, H. W. Park, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Combination of a Time Reversal Process and a Consecutive Outlier Analysis for Baseline-free Damage Diagnosis," (accepted for publication) Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2006.

H. Sohn, H. W. Park, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Damage Detection in Composite Plates by Using an Enhanced Time Reversal Method," (accepted for publication) Journal of Aerospace Engineering, ASCE, 2006.

2005

Y. Lei, A. S. Kiremidjian, K. K. Nair, J. P. Lynch and K. H. Law. "Algorithms for Time Synchronization of Wireless Structural Monitoring Sensors," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons, 34(6):555-573, 2005.

K.-C. Lu, Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, P. Y. Lin, C.-H. Loh, and K. H. Law, "Application of Wireless Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring and Control," Proceedings of the 18th KKCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Kaoshong, Taiwan, December 18-20, 2005.

J. P. Lynch, K. J. Loh, T.-C. Hou, Y. Wang, J. Yi, C.-B. Yun, K. Lu, and C.-H. Loh, "Validation Case Studies of Wireless Monitoring Systems in Civil Structures," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII-2), Shenzhen, China, November 16-18, 2005.

A. Swartz, D. Jung, J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, D. Shi, and M. P. Flynn, "Design of a Wireless Sensor for Scalable Distributed In-Network Computation in a Structural Health Monitoring System," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 12-14, 2005.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, and K. H. Law. "Validation of an Integrated Network System for Real-Time Wireless Monitoring of Civil Structures," Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring , Stanford, CA, USA, September 12-14, 2005.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, K. H. Law, J. H. Yi, C. G. Lee, C. B. Yun, "Validation of a Large-Scale Wireless Structural Monitoring System on the Geumdang Bridge," Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, Rome, Italy, June 19-23, 2005.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch and K. H. Law, "Design of a Low-Power Wireless Structural Monitoring System for Collaborative Computational Algorithms," Proceedings of SPIE 10th Annual International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, March 6-10, 2005.

Y. Wang, J. P. Lynch, and K. H. Law. "Wireless Structural Sensors Using Reliable Communication Protocols for Data Acquisition and Interrogation," Proceedings of the 23rd International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XXIII), Orlando, FL, January 31 - February 3, 2005.

H. Sohn, H. W. Park, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Instantaneous Online Monitoring of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles without Baseline Signals," Proceedings of the 23rd International Modal Analysis Conference, Orlando, FL, January 31- February 3, 2005.

2004

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, E. Carryer, C. R. Farrar, H. Sohn, D. W. Allen, B. Nadler, and J. R. Wait. "Design and Performance Validation of a Wireless Sensing Unit for Structural Monitoring Applications," Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 17(3-4):  393-408, 2004.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, and A. S. Kiremidjian, "Wireless Sensing for Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Structures," Proceedings of International Workshop on Integrated Life-Cycle Management of Infrastructures, Hong Kong, December 9-11, 2004.

H. Sohn, H. W. Park, K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Instantaneous Damage Detection using Time Reversal Process," Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, Bar Harbor, Maine, October 25-27, 2004.

H. Sohn, H. W. Park , K. H. Law, and C. R. Farrar. "Minimizing Misclassification of Damage Using Extreme Value Statistics," US-Korea Joint Seminar/Workshop on Smart Structures Technologies, Sheraton Walker Hill Hotel in Seoul, Korea, September 2-4, 2004.

H. W. Park, H. Sohn, and K. H. Law. "Damage detection in composite plates by using time reversal active sensing," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Seoul, Korea, September 2-4, 2004.

J. P. Lynch, Y. Wang, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, and A. S. Kiremidjian. " Design and Development of Power-Efficient Wireless Sensing Units for Structural Health Monitoring Applications," Presented at the International Symposium on Earthquake Engineering in the Past and Future Fifty Years, Harbin, China, August 2004.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, H. Sohn, and C. R. Farrar. "Design of a Wireless Active Sensing Unit for Structural Health Monitoring," Proceedings of the SPIE 9th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, March 14-18, 2004.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, H. Sohn and C. R. Farrar. "Piezoelectric Structural Excitation using a Wireless Active Sensing Unit," International Modal Analysis Conference XXII, Dearborn, MI, January 26-29, 2004.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, H. Sohn, G. Park, C. Farrar and K. H. Law. "Embedding Actuation Functionalities in a Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System," Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Smart Materials and Structures Technology, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 129-137, January 12-14, 2004.

2003

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, T. W. Kenny, and E. Carryer, "Embedment of Structural Monitoring Algorithms in a Wireless Sensing Unit," Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Techno Press, 15(3): 285-297, 2003.

J. P. Lynch, A. Partridge, K. H. Law, T. W. Kenny, A. S. Kiremidjian and E. Carryer, "Design of a Piezoresistive MEMS-Based Accelerometer for Integration with a Wireless Sensing Unit for Structural Monitoring," Journal of Aerospace Engineering, ASCE, 16(3): 108-114, 2003. 

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian & E. Carryer, "Power-Efficient Wireless Structural Monitoring with Local Data Processing," International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructures (SHMII-03), Tokyo, Japan, November 13-15, 2003.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, H. Sohn and C. Farrrar, "New Opportunities for Structural Monitoring: Wireless Active Sensing," Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advance Sensors, Structural Health Monitoring and Smart Structures , Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, November 10-11, 2003.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, and E. Carryer. "Power-Efficient Data Management for a Wireless Structural Monitoring System," Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 15-17, 2003.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, E. Carryer, "Design of Wireless Sensor Units with Embedded Statistical Time-Series Damage Detection Algorithms for Structural Health Monitoring," Caltrans/UCSD Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring and Diagnostics of Bridge Infrastructure, San Diego, CA, USA, March 7-8, 2003.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, E. Carryer, H. Sohn, and C. Farrar. "Field Validation of a Wireless Structural Monitoring System on the Alamosa Canyon Bridge," Proceedings of the SPIE 10th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2-6, 2003.

2002

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, C. Ed Carryer, Farrar, H. Sohn, D. Allen, B. Nadler, and J. Wait. "Laboratory and Field Validation of a Wireless Sensing Unit Design for Structural Monitoring," Proceedings of US-Korea Workshop on Smart Structural Systems, Pusan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, T. W. Kenny, and E. Carryer. "Computational Core Design of a Wireless Structural Health Monitoring System," Proceedings of Advances in Structural Engineering and Mechanics (ASEM'02) Conference, Pusan, Korea, August 21-23, 2002.

J. P. Lynch, A. Sundararajan, K. H. Law, and A. S. Kiremidjian. "Embedding Algorithms in a Wireless Structural Monitoring System," Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances and New Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research (ICANCEER'02), Hong Kong, China, August 19-20, 2002.

J. P. Lynch. Decentralization of Wireless Monitoring and Control Technologies for Smart Civil Structures, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, July 2002.

J. P. Lynch, A. S. Kiremidjian, K. H. Law, T. W. Kenny, and E. Carryer. "Issues in Wireless Structural Damage Monitoring Technologies," Proceedings of the 3rd World Conference on Structural Control (3WCSC), Como, Italy, April 7-12, 2002.

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, E. Carryer, T. W. Kenny, A. Partridge, and A. Sundararajan. "Validation of a Wireless Modular Monitoring System for Structures," Proceedings of SPIE 9th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, March 17-21, 2002.

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, T. W. Kenny, and E. Carryer. "A Wireless Modular Monitoring System for Civil Structures," Proceedings of the 20th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XX), Los Angeles, CA, February 4-7, 2002.

2001 And Before

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Damage Diagnosis Using Experimental Ritz Vectors," ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 127(11): 1184-1193, 2001.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law, "Extraction of Ritz Vectors from Vibration Test Data," Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 15(1): 213-226, 2001.

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, T. W. Kenny, E. Carryer, and A. Partridge. "The Design of a Wireless Sensing Unit for Structural Health Monitoring," Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford, CA, September 12-14, 2001.

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, A. S. Kiremidjian, E. Carryer, and T. W. Kenny. "Advanced Wireless Structural Monitoring: Past, Present and Future," John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Research Center News Letter, Issue 28, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2001.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Application of Load-dependent Ritz Vectors to Bayesian Probabilistic Damage Detection," Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 15(2): 139-153, 2000.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Bayesian Probabilistic Damage Detection of a Reinforced Concrete Bridge Column," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 29(8): 1131-1152, 2000.

J. P. Lynch, K. H. Law, E. G. Straser, A. S. Kiremidjian, and T. W. Kenny. "The Development of a Wireless Modular Health Monitoring System for Civil Structures," Proceedings of the MCEER Mitigation of Earthquake Disaster by Advanced Technologies (MEDAT-2) Workshop, Las Vegas, NV, March 2-3, 2000.

H. Sohn, M. Dzwonczyk, E. G. Straser, A. S. Kiremidjian, K. H. Law and T. Meng. "An Experimental Study of Temperature Effects on Modal Parameters of the Alamosa Canyon Bridge," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 28(8):879-897,1999.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Flexibility Based Extraction of Ritz Vectors and Their Application to Damage Diagnosis," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, September 8-10, 1999.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Application of Ritz Vectors to Damage Detection for a Grid-Type Bridge Model," Proceedings of the 17th International Modal Analysis Conference, Kissimmee, FL, USA, February 8-11, 1999.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. " A Bayesian Probabilistic Damage Detection Using Load-Dependent Ritz Vectors," Proceedings of the 16th International Modal Analysis Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, February 2-5, 1998.

H. Sohn. A Bayesian Probabilistic Approach to Damage Detection for Civil Structures, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 1998.

H. Sohn, M. Dzwonczyk, E. G. Straser, K. H. Law, T. Meng and A. S. Kiremidjian. "Adaptive Modeling of Environmental Effects on Modal Parameters for Damage Detection in Civil Structures," Proceedings of the SPIE's 5th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, USA, March 1-5, 1998.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "Application of Load-Dependent Ritz Vectors to Probabilistic Damage Detection," Proceedings of the SPIE's 5th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, San Diego, CA, USA, March 1-5, 1998.

H. Sohn and K. H. Law. "A Bayesian Probabilistic Approach for Structure Damage Detection," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 26(12):1259-1281, 1997.