Analysis and Report on SD2000: A Workshop to Determine Structural Dynamics Research for the Millenium

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Special Issue: Tribomechadynamics

“…The origins of tribomechadynamics can be traced back to the Structural Dynamics 2000 workshop in 1999 [1]…”