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- Title
- Assessment of Structural Damage Using the Theory of Evidence.
- File
- PB82215831.pdf
- Author(s)
- Toussi, S.; Yao, J. T. P.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., March 1982, 40 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- CE-STR-82-12
- Abstract
- Dynamic test data of building structures are analyzed to assess structural damage and the method of converting evidential information to the interval representation of Dempster and Shafer is applied. It is shown how results obtained from individual sources are interpreted. Response histories, crack patterns, hysteretic behaviors, and the formation of damage parameter mass distributions are considered. Information obtained from several different sources is combined to compensate for individual deficiencies of the knowledge sources.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Reinforced concrete; Mechanical hysteresis; Algorithms; Dynamic response; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Ground motion; Soil structure interactions; Concrete construction; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis