Synonyms
Operational modal analysis; Operational modal testing
Introduction
Ambient vibration testing (AVT), long-term dynamic monitoring, and operational modal analysis (OMA, i.e., the identification of modal parameters from ambient vibration data) of Cultural Heritage structures are a rather recent topic, and only a limited number of complete investigations are reported in the literature (Jaishi et al. 2003; Bennati et al. 2005; Ivorra and Pallares 2006; Gentile and Saisi 2007, 2013; Pau and Vestroni 2008; Casarin and Modena 2008; Peña et al. 2010; Ramos et al. 2010; Aras et al. 2011; Oliveira et al. 2012). On the other hand, there is a growing interest on this topic since the preservation of Cultural Heritage is of primary concern in many countries all over the world.
AVT and OMA are especially suitable to historic structures for several reasons: (a) the easy and fully nondestructive way of testing, performed by measuring only the structural response under ambient excitation; (b)...
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Gentile, C., Saisi, A. (2015). Ambient Vibration Testing of Cultural Heritage Structures. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_71
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