Abstract: A system identification and model updating methodology that accounts for factors influencing the reliability of identification is proposed. An important aspect of this methodology is the generation of a population of ...

Abstract: System identification involves identification of a behavioral model that best explains the measured behavior of a structure. This research uses a strategy of generation and iterative filtering of multiple candidate models ...

Abstract: System identification using multiple-model strategies may involve thousands of models with several parameters. However, only a few models are close to the correct model. A key task involves finding which parameters are ...