Potential of Global Positioning System (GPS) to measure frequencies of oscillations of engineering structures

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 318, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 606-623

  Psimoulis, Panos ^a   Pytharouli, Stella ^a   Karambalis, Dimitris ^a   Stiros, Stathis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; CIVIL ENGINEERING; CURVE FITTING; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HEALTH; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOTION ESTIMATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SPECTRUM ANALYZERS; SPEECH; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; STRUCTURAL PANELS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); SUSPENSION BRIDGES; TALL BUILDINGS; TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; COMPUTER CONTROLLED; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; ENGINEERING STRUCTURES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS); GPS RECEIVERS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS; LEAST SQUARES; LONG SUSPENSION BRIDGES; MODAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES; RESOLUTION LEVEL; SPECTRAL ANALYSES; TIME DOMAIN OCT; TIME-SERIES; WAVELET TECHNIQUES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 50249101073     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2008.04.036     Document Type: Article

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