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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 914638, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/914638
Research Article
Intelligent Monitoring of Multistory Buildings under Unknown Earthquake Excitation by a Wireless Sensor Network
1Department of Civil Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
2State Key Laboratory for Disaster Reduction in Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
3Department of Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
Received 7 July 2012; Revised 7 October 2012; Accepted 8 October 2012
Academic Editor: Ting-Hua YI
Copyright © 2012 Y. Lei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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