Abstract
The aim of “System Identification” is to determine modal and system properties of structural systems. This is while in “Damage Detection”, the identification of system characteristic matrices is as important as or even more important than the identification of frequency characteristics. Because of various constraints – i.e. difficulties in force excitation of structures due to their large size, geometry, and location – in practice only single excitation and partial measurement, at selected degrees of freedom, is possible. In this paper, a single dynamic load was applied to identify a structural system only along one of the degrees of freedom of the structure. Further, responses corresponding to a few degrees of freedom were also measured. To identify a system with this sort of restricted information, a new approach was introduced enabling identification of the structure׳s parameters of mass, damping and stiffness. Taking into account the significant effect of noise reduction in improving system identification accuracy levels, a noise reduction technique was also proposed. The accuracy of the method was also assessed against noise level and location of single excitation. It was shown that as noise level increases, identification errors will also increase (less than 3.5 percent). It was further observed that applying single force at the first storey of the flexural structure would yield the lowest error levels in the identification results. Later, the method׳s efficiency and precision were examined through the application of a “closed loop solution” to a six-storey flexural structure, and a four-span Pratt truss. The obtained results showed that the proposed method could act as an effective model in identification of system properties.
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