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Structural Identification: Opportunities and Challenges

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Volume 139Issue 10October 2013
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Received: Dec 15, 2011
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A. E. Aktan, M.ASCE
Roebling Professor, Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (corresponding author). E-mail: [email protected]
J. M. W. Brownjohn, M.ASCE
Professor of Structural Dynamics, Univ. of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, U.K.

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