Abstract: Reliably assessing the condition and safety of suspension bridges poses the problem of determining the remaining strength of bridge cables in their present state. Corrosion of the steel wires, which together comprise the ...

Abstract: Accurately determining the current state of the main cables of a suspension bridge is critical to assessing the safety of the bridge. These cables are composed of thousands of individual bridge wires, each of which ...

Abstract: When cables use many wires packed in a hexagonal pattern wrapped by bands around the surface, effective stiffness plays an important role in structural integrity and safety. This paper studies cylindrical wires packed in ...

Abstract: This paper discusses a theoretical approach to investigate the dependency relationship between the stiffness matrix and the complex eigenvectors in the identification of structural systems for the ...

Abstract: This work tackles the problem of global identifiability of an undamped, shear-type, N degrees of freedom linear structural system under forced excitation without any prior knowledge of its mass ...

Abstract: In this paper, a methodology is presented for the identification of the complete mass, damping, and stiffness matrices of a dynamical system using a limited number of time histories of the ...

Abstract: A methodology is introduced to estimate the strength of suspension bridge cables using results of tensile strength tests performed on wire samples extracted from the bridge’s main cables. The innovation of the proposed ...

Abstract: The problem of system identification is an inverse problem of difficult solution. Currently, difficulties lie in the development of algorithms that use measured data from the system to characterize it without significant ...