Meet the editor

Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi is currently serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Iran. Dr. Noroozinejad is the Chief Editor of the *International Journal of Earthquake and Impact Engineering*, the Associate Editor of the *ASCE Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction*, the Associate Editor of the *IET Journal of Engineering*, the Asso-

ciate Editor of *Frontiers in Built Environment: Earthquake Engineering Section*, and the Trial Engineering Editor of *ASCE Natural Hazards Review*. He is also a member of the FIB Commission on Resilient RC Structures, the ASCE Objective Resilience Committee, the RILEM Structural Performance and Design Technical Committee, and also the IEEE P693 Committee on Seismic Design for Substations.

Contents

in Active Control

*by Lanphuong Nguyen*

Approaches

*by Ming Yuan and Fan Yang*

a Low-Field MRI Device

*by Toru Yazawa and Shinji Omata*

*by Masaaki Mori and Kunihiko Ishihara*

*by Jiří Přibil, Anna Přibilová and Ivan Frollo*

*by Ilesanmi Afolabi Daniyan and Khumbulani Mpofu*

*by Cosmas Pandit Pagwiwoko and Louis Jezequel*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 15**

**Chapter 3 33**

**Chapter 4 55** Countermeasure for High Level Sound Generated from Boiler Tube Bank Duct

**Chapter 5 81**

**Chapter 6 97**

**Chapter 7 119**

**Chapter 8 137**

Nonlinear Giant Magnetostrictive Actuator and Its Application

Ultrasonic Vibration-Assisted Hot Glass Embossing Process

mDFA Detects Abnormality: From Heartbeat to Material Vibration

Effective Low Frequency Noise Insulation Adopting Active Damping

Analysis of Energy Relations between Noise and Vibration Produced by

Vibration Analysis and Control in the Rail Car System Using PID Controls

Analysing Non-Linear Flutter Vibrations Using System Dynamic Approach

*Haifeng Li and Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi*

*by Lihua Yang, Haipeng Zhang, Hailong Jiang, Shuyong Liu, Haiping Wu,* 
