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- Title
- Random Vibration and Reliability Analysis of Primary-Secondary Structural Systems.
- File
- PB90161951.pdf
- Author(s)
- Ibrahim, Y.; Grigouiu, M.; Soong, T. T.
- Source
- National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., November 10, 1989, 76 p.
- Abstract
- Primary-secondary structural systems do not generally have classical modes of vibration and are characterized by large differences in masses and stiffnesses associated with various degrees of freedom. Considerable research has been directed at finding efficient and robust techniques for the dynamic analysis of the systems. Methods have also been developed for approximate analysis of primary-secondary systems. In the work, a methodology is proposed for calculating second moment characteristics of response processes and the probability of failure for linear primary-secondary systems with uncertain parameters subject to non-stationary Gaussian excitation. The proposed method is based on methods of linear random vibration, crossing theory of Gaussian processes, and First-and Second-Order Reliability Methods (FORM/SORM). The random vibration analysis follows the state space approach in which excitation is modeled as the output of a linear filter subjected to a uniformly modulated white noise process. Mean crossing rates of responses are used to approximate conditional failure probabilities for a given set of system parameters. The analysis is relatively simple because conditional responses are Gaussian processes.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Failure; Vibration; Flexural strength; Dynamic response; Earthquake engineering; Fatigue (Materials); Stiffness; Elastic properties; Hysteresis; Mechanical properties; Dynamic structural analysis