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The Authors
Seung-Bok Choi received his PhD in
mechanical engineering from Michigan
State University, East Lansing in 1990.
Since 1991, he has been a professor at
Inha University, Incheon, South Korea.
Currently, he is an Inha Fellow Professor,
and his current research interests include
the design and control of functional struc-
tures and systems utilizing smart mate-
rials such as electrorheological uids,
magnetorheological uids, piezoelectric
materials, and shape memory alloys. He
is the author of over 310 archival interna-
tional journals, 5 book contributions, and
220 international conference publications. ...