System Identification and Damage Assessment of Buildings    Utilizing the Whittier Earthquake Data
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Time-domain system identification method is used to analyze the                 Whittier earthquake records.  The objectives are (1) to study the               building behavior during the earthquake, (2) to identify energy                 dissipation capabilities of the building-foundation system, and (3) to          correlate and calibrate the degree of building damage during the                course of ground shaking.                                                                                                                                       New features of the investigation include (1) nonlinear analysis in             terms of time-varying segments of equivalent linear systems, (2) use            of a nonclassical modal synthesis approach, and (3) use of a multi-             variate system identification technique (SID).                                                                                                                  The research is expected to bring closer the development of SID and             its practical use in earthquake analysis and design, such as                    prediction of structural response and damage as a function of time.
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