Dynamic characteristics of a base isolated building from ambient vibration measurements and low level earthquake shaking

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 313-322

  Ventura, C E ^a   Liam Finn, W D ^b   Lord, J F ^a   Fujita, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambient vibration tests; Base isolated building; Modal characteristics; Model updating; Signal analysis

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DAMPING; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

AMBIENT VIBRATION TESTS;

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE;

DAMPING; EARTHQUAKE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SHAKING TABLE TEST; VIBRATION;

JAPAN;

EID: 0037410091     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00208-7     Document Type: Article

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