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A new method is proposed to assess the condition of structures under unknown support excitation by simultaneously detecting local damage and identifying the support excitation from several structural dynamic responses. The support excitation acting on a structure is modeled by orthogonal polynomial approximations, and the sensitivities of structural dynamic response with respect to its physical parameters and orthogonal coefficients are derived. The identification equation is based on Taylor’s first order approximation, and is solved with the damped least-squares method in an iterative procedure. A fifteen-story shear building model and a five-story three-dimensional steel frame structure are studied to validate the proposed method. Numerical simulations with noisy measured accelerations show that the proposed method can accurately detect local damage and identify unknown support excitation from only several responses of the structure. This method provides a new approach for detecting structural damage and updating models with unknown input and incomplete measured output information.
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Supported by: National Natural Science Foundation of China Under Grant No.50579008; Joint Research Fund for Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao Young Scholars Under Grant No.50429802; Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University by State Education Commission Under Grant No.NCET-04-0323 and a research grant from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Zhang, K., Law, S.S. & Duan, Z. Condition assessment of structures under unknown support excitation. Earthq. Eng. Eng. Vib. 8, 103–114 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11803-009-9003-x
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