Time-frequency analysis of small frequency variations in civil engineering structures under weak and strong motions using a reassignment method

Structural Health Monitoring

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-171

  Michel, Clotaire ^a   Gueguen, Philippe ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Earthquake engineering; Seismic risk; Time varying stiffness; Wigner Ville distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649266029     PISSN: 14759217     EISSN: 17413168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1475921709352146     Document Type: Article

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