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DEVELOPMENT OF PARALLEL NON-LINEAR ALGORITHMS FOR VIBRATION CONTROL OF STRUCTURE A project proposal submitted to DST-NSF ST COOPERATION PROGRAMME FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS Jointly By Department of Mathematical Sciences Northern Illinois University Illinois 60115, USA And Computational Structural Mechanics Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune University Campus, Ganeshkhind Pune 411 007, INDIA August 2004  DST-NSF ST COOPERATION PROGRAMME FOR SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS APPLICATION FOR JOINT RESEARCH PROPOSAL Title of the Proposal : Development of parallel non-linear algorithms for vibration control of structure Duration of the Proposal : Two years Expected date of commencement : February 1, 2005 Field of ST Covered by the proposal : Key words (five) for the proposal. Project Investigators (PIs) Collaborating Institutions INDIAN USA Name of the PI Mr. Mahesh S. Shah Dr. Biswa Nath Dutta Designation Team Coordinator Presidential Research Professor Institutional Address C-DAC Dept. of Mathematical Pune University Campus Sciences, Northern Ganesh Khind Road Illinois University, Pune 411 007 De Kalb, Illinois 60115 Telephone No. +91 (20) 2569 4000 (815) 753-6759 Fax No. +91 (20) 2569 4081 E-mail mahesh@ dattab@ Name of the Co-PI Mr. Anil Kumbhar Designation Member Technical Staff Institutional Address same as above Telephone No. same as above Fax No. same as above E-mail anilk@ PROJECT SUMMARY In past two decades remarkable progress has been made in both theory and applications of all-important areas of control theory. Theory is rich and sophisticated. Some beautiful application of control theory is presently being made in aerospace, biomedical engineering, industrial engineering, robotics, economics, power systems, etc. Many of the methods described earlier were developed before the computer era and