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Seismic Damage Assessment of Instrumented Wood-frame Buildings: A Case-study of NEESWood Full-scale Shake Table Tests

Milad Roohi, Eric M. Hernandez, David Rosowsky

Presented at Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2018 (MS 23-Advanced deep learning based SHM) and in the EMI SHM and Control Committee Student Paper Competition at MIT, Boston, MA, May 29-June 1, 2018, 2019

Abstract

The authors propose a methodology to perform seismic damage assessment of instrumented wood-frame buildings using response measurements. The proposed methodology employs a nonlinear model-based state observer that combines sparse acceleration measurements and a nonlinear structural model of a building to estimate the complete seismic response including displacements, velocity, acceleration and internal forces in all structural members. From the estimated seismic response and structural characteristics of each shear wall of the building, element-by-element seismic damage indices are computed and remaining useful life (pertaining to seismic effects) is predicted. The methodology is illustrated using measured data from the 2009 NEESWood Capstone full-scale shake table tests at the E-Defense facility in Japan.

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