A note on predetermined earthquake damage scenarios for structural health monitoring

Gicev, Vlado and Trifunac, Mihailo (2012) A note on predetermined earthquake damage scenarios for structural health monitoring. Structural Control and Health Monitoring, 19 (8). pp. 746-757.

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Abstract

It is shown that the damage scenarios for site-specific building models, responding in highly nonlinear manner to strong earthquake ground-motion pulses, can be used in real-time health-monitoring systems. When it can be shown that such predictions produce robust results and are not sensitive to the details of the complete time history of strong ground motion, the predetermined earthquake damage scenarios (PEDS) method can produce reliable predictions of the location(s) and the degree(s) of structural damage in essentially real time. It is shown that for a full-scale building, damaged during the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California, PEDS based on one-dimensional wave propagation in the layered building model would have produced accurate and realistic predictions of damage. In contrast to the vibrational health-monitoring methods that track changes in the frequency and stiffness of the characteristic functions, PEDS methods provide invaluable information for spatial and temporal identification of damage.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Natural sciences > Earth and related environmental sciences
Natural sciences > Matematics
Natural sciences > Physical sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Computer Science
Depositing User: Vlado Gicev
Date Deposited: 16 Aug 2013 09:54
Last Modified: 16 Aug 2013 09:54
URI: https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/6912

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