Recommended Citation
Postprint version. Published in International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Volume 39, Issue 6, August 1, 2004, pages 993-1004.
At the time of publication, the author Mohammad N.Noori was affiliated with North Carolina State University. Currently, August 2008, he is the Dean of the College of Engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7462(03)00091-X.
Abstract
Health monitoring and damage detection strategies for base-excited structures typically rely on accurate models of the system dynamics. Restoring forces in these structures can exhibit highly non-linear characteristics, thus accurate non-linear system identification is critical. Parametric system identification approaches are commonly used, but require a priori knowledge of restoring force characteristics. Non-parametric approaches do not require this a priori information, but they typically lack direct associations between the model and the system dynamics, providing limited utility for health monitoring and damage detection. In this paper a novel system identification approach, the intelligent parameter varying (IPV) method, is used to identify constitutive non-linearities in structures subject to seismic excitations. IPV overcomes the limitations of traditional parametric and non-parametric approaches, while preserving the unique benefits of each. It uses embedded radial basis function networks to estimate the constitutive characteristics of inelastic and hysteretic restoring forces in a multi-degree-of-freedom structure. Simulation results are compared to those of a traditional parametric approach, the prediction error method. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of IPV in identifying highly non-linear restoring forces, without a priori information, while preserving a direct association with the structural dynamics.
Disciplines
Engineering
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