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- Title
- Nonstationary Response of Structures and Its Application to Earthquake Engineering.
- File
- PB91170092.pdf
- Author(s)
- Hou, Z.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., cJanuary 1990, 217 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- EERL-90-01
- Abstract
- The thesis presents a simplified state-variable method to solve for the non-stationary response of linear multiple degree of freedom (MDOF) systems subjected to a modulated stationary excitation in both time and frequency domains. The resulting covariance matrix and evolutionary spectral density matrix of the response may be expressed as a product of a constant system matrix and a time-dependent matrix, the latter can be explicitly evaluated for most envelopes currently prevailing in engineering. The stationary correlation matrix of the response may be found by taking the limit of the covariance response when a unit step envelope is used. The reliability analysis can then be performed based on the first two moments of the response obtained. The method presented facilitates obtaining explicit solutions for general linear MDOF systems and is flexible enough to be applied to different stochastic models of excitation. This approach may also be readily incorporated into finite element codes for random vibration analysis of linear structures. A set of explicit solutions for the response of simple linear structures subjected to modulated white noise earthquake models with four different envelopes are presented as illustration.
- Keywords
- Time domain; Covariance matrices; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Buildings; Theses; Soil-structure interactions; Linear systems; Frequency domain; Dynamic structural analysis