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Assessment of structural damage detection methods for steel structures using full-scale experimental data and nonlinear analysis

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Rapid structural damage assessment methodologies are essential to properly allocate emergency response and minimize business interruption due to downtime in the aftermath of earthquakes. Within this context, data-driven algorithms supported by sensing capabilities can be potentially employed. In this paper, we evaluate an extensive number of damage indicators computed based on nonmodel-based system identification techniques and wavelet analysis. The efficiency of these indicators to infer the damage state of conventional steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) and concentrically braced frames (CBFs) is evaluated through the utilization of landmark full-scale shake table experiments that examined the inelastic behavior of such frames at various seismic intensities. The same data is complemented with numerical simulations of multi-story steel MRFs and CBFs with the overarching goal to identify potential limitations and propose refinements in commonly used damage indicators for rapid seismic risk assessment. It is shown that wavelet-based damage sensitive features are well correlated with commonly used story-based engineering demand parameters that control structural and non-structural damage in conventional steel frame buildings.

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This study is based on work supported by the Fonds de recherché du Québec - Nature et technologies, Projet de Recherché en Equipe, Award No. FQRNT 2013-PR-167747. Financial support was also provided by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). The financial support is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank Dr. Ahmed Elkady for sharing his nonlinear building model of the 8-story steel moment-resisting frame. The authors also thank Dr. Tsuyoshi Hikino and Prof. Masayoshi Nakashima for providing the experimental data of the two structures tested at the E-Defense facility administered by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Earthquake Mitigation (NIED). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors.

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Hwang, SH., Lignos, D.G. Assessment of structural damage detection methods for steel structures using full-scale experimental data and nonlinear analysis. Bull Earthquake Eng 16, 2971–2999 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-017-0288-2

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