Estimating Earthquake-Induced Displacement Responses of Building Structures Using Time-Varying Model and Limited Acceleration Data
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 147, Issue 4
Abstract
This paper presents a time-varying model-based method for estimating earthquake-induced displacement responses of building structures using limited acceleration data. First, a time-varying model which considers the variability of stiffness by a time-variant story local stiffness reduction factor and the variability of damping by formulating the Rayleigh damping model with a time-variant mass coefficient was developed. Then, a displacement estimation algorithm was derived on the basis of the state space representation of the time-varying model and the unscented Kalman filter. The effectiveness of the proposed method is numerically verified through nonlinear responses of a ten-story building model where the hysteretic restoring force is simulated by the Bouc–Wen model. In addition, numerical results indicated that a few sensors with low noise are more desirable for the measurement strategy. Finally, the applicability to realistic seismic monitoring of buildings was investigated through a 18-story steel frame test at the E-Defense shaking table facility, which tested collapse behavior and realistic damage of high-rise steel buildings constructed in the 1990s in Japan.
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Some or all data, models, or code used during the study were provided by a third party. This includes the measured acceleration data of the 18-story steel-frame specimen. Direct requests for these materials may be made to the provider indicated in the Acknowledgements.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51708066), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (Grant No. cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0254), and Project No. 2018CDXYTM0003 supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The experimental data were provided by the Archives of Shaking Table Experimentation Database and Information (ASEBI) of E-Defense. The authors express their sincere gratitude to Dr. Yoshitaka Suzuki in the Kobori Research Complex for sharing the experimental data and the analysis results of displacement used in this paper.
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