Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems: structural dynamics, methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration testing with a detailed measurement system, software, practical applications, and case studies of full-scale structures.

Autorentext

Lam, Heung Fai is currently Associate Professor at Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, and Associate Editor of Engineering Structures.

Yang, Jia-Hua is currently Associate Professor at College of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Scientific Research Center of Engineering Mechanics, Guangxi University (China).

Inhalt

1 Introduction 2 Fundamental of Structural Dynamics 3 Modal Analysis Based on Power Spectral Density Data 4 Modal Analysis Based on Cross-correlation Data 5 System Identification Based on Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models 6 Modal updating by minimizing errors in modal parameters 7 Bayesian Model Updating Based on Markov chain Monte Carlo