1st Edition

Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

By Heung-Fai Lam, Jia-Hua Yang Copyright 2023
424 Pages 344 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

424 Pages 344 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

424 Pages 344 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems. It starts from the fundamentals of structural dynamics, and covers the methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration tests and the related experimental setup. It concludes with an outline of the authors‘ software, demonstrating practical applications, and illustrated with real-world case studies... Read more

1 Introduction

2 Fundamental of Structural Dynamics

3 Modal Analysis Based on Power Spectral Density Data

4 Modal Analysis Based on Cross-correlation Data

5 System Identification Based on Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models

6 Modal updating by minimizing errors in modal parameters

7 Bayesian Model Updating Based on Markov chain Monte Carlo

Biography

Lam, Heung Fai is currently Associate Professor at Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, and Associate Editor of Engineering Structures.

Yang, Jia-Hua is currently Associate Professor at College of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Scientific Research Center of Engineering Mechanics, Guangxi University (China).