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- Title
- System Identification of Hysteretic Structures.
- File
- PB85240489.pdf
- Author(s)
- Cifuentes, A. O.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1985, 170 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- EERL-84-04
- Abstract
- The thesis is concerned with the earthquake response of hysteretic structures subjected to strong ground acceleration. Several earthquake records corresponding to different instrumented buildings are analyzed. Based on these observations, a new model for the dynamic behavior of reinforced concrete buildings is proposed. In addition, a suitable system identification algorithm to be used with this new model is introduced. As a consequence, the new algorithm exhibits significant advantages from a computational point of view. Some numerical examples using actual earthquake data are discussed.
- Keywords
- Reinforced concrete; Seismic waves; Algorithms; Mathematical models; Dynamic response; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Ground motion; System identification; Theses; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis