Predicting the usefulness of monitoring for identifying the behavior of structures

Journal of Structural Engineering (United States)

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1716-1727

  Goulet, James A ^a,b   Smith, Ian F C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bridge monitoring; Correlation; Errors; Expected identifiability; Model updating; System identification; Uncertainties

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE MONITORING; IDENTIFIABILITY; MODEL UPDATING; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORS; STRUCTURAL IDENTIFICATION; STRUCTURAL MONITORING; UNCERTAINTIES;

CORRELATION METHODS; ERRORS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TOOLS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885010038     PISSN: 07339445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000577     Document Type: Article

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