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• Yang, J. N.; Akbarpour, A.; Ghaemmaghami, P.
  Instantaneous Optimal Control Laws for Tall Buildings Under Seismic Excitations.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., June 10, 1987, 108 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NCEER-87-0007
  Keywords: ; Optimal control; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Open loop systems; Seismic design; Algorithms

• Yang, J. N.; Akbarpour, A.
  Practical Considerations for Structural Control: System Uncertainty, System Time Delay, and Truncation of Small Control Forces.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., August 10, 1987, 159 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NCEER-87-0018
  Keywords: Optimal control; Sensitivity analysis; Time lag; Earthquake engineering; Riccati equation; Graphs (Charts); Uncertainty; Structural analysis; Algorithms; Control systems; Structural control

• Agrawal, A. K.; Yang, J. N.
  Optimal Polynomial Control of Linear and Nonlinear Structures.
  National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.; New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Albany., December 11, 1995, 106 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NCEER-95-0019
  Keywords: ; Dynamic response; Optimal control; Buildings; Vibration isolators; Earthquake engineering; Seismic waves; Hysteresis; Polynomials; Structural response; Active control; Linear systems; Nonlinear systems; Control systems; Seismic isolation; Structural dynamics