Modal model identification of structures under unmeasured seismic excitations

Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 807-824

  Sepe, Vincenzo ^a   Capecchi, Danilo ^b   De Angelis, Maurizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational techniques; Modal model; Seismic excitation; Structural identification; Unknown input

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL FRAMES;

MODAL MODEL IDENTIFICATION; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SPATIAL FRAMES; STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 19944406152     PISSN: 00988847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eqe.456     Document Type: Article

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