Abstract: Subspace identification techniques are a popular parametric time-domain method for extracting modal parameters of a structure under ambient condition. These techniques can simultaneously process a large quantity of data ...

Abstract: Wavelet transform (WT) is a mathematical tool that can decompose a temporal signal into a summation of time-domain basis functions of various frequency resolutions. This simultaneous time-frequency decomposition gives the ...

Abstract: A statistical pattern classification method based on wavelet packet transform (WPT) is developed in this study for structural health monitoring. The core of this method is the WPT that has the ability of extracting minute ...

Abstract: Vulnerability of a structure under terrorist attack can be regarded as the study of its behavior against blast-induced loads. A structure is vulnerable if a small damage can trigger a disproportionately large consequence ...

Abstract: Identifying the dynamic characteristics of structures under ambient conditions is very important for heath monitoring and damage assessment. In this study, an output-only recursive combined subspace identification technique ...

Abstract: In an attempt to validate the effectiveness of a magnetorheological (MR) damper in controlling the wind-induced response of a building model in a wind tunnel, it is necessary to have a damper which produces a range of small ...

Abstract: Identifying properties of civil engineering structures is an important task for their condition assessment, damage diagnosis, maintenance and repair, and life-cycle management. These structures usually contain a large ...

Abstract: Identifying dynamic characteristics for structures under ambient condition is a very important task for the design verification, model updating, health monitoring, and damage detection of these structures. Among many ...

Abstract: This paper treats the responses of a controlled system to step and pulse disturbances where the rate of change of the controlling variable is bounded. Optimum transients in the sense of ...

Abstract: This paper treats the instability of rectangular sandwich panels with nonisotropic cores and faces of different materials or thicknesses. The simply supported panel is loaded with a uniform edge ...