Experiences, accomplishments, lessons, and challenges of E‐defense—Tests using world's largest shaking table

M Nakashima, T Nagae, R Enokida… - Japan Architectural …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
E‐Defense, which is operated by the Japanese National Research Institute for Earth
Science and Disaster Resilience, currently contains the world's largest 3‐dimensional …

Seismic damage diagnosis in adjacent steel and RC MRFs considering pounding effects through improved wavelet-based damage-sensitive feature

B Mohebi, O Yazdanpanah, F Kazemi… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to propose complex Morlet (cmorf bf c) wavelet-based refined damage-
sensitive feature (rDSF) as a new and more precise damage indicator to diagnose seismic …

PhyMDAN: Physics-informed knowledge transfer between buildings for seismic damage diagnosis through adversarial learning

S Xu, HY Noh - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2021 - Elsevier
Automated structural damage diagnosis after earthquakes is important for improving
efficiency of disaster response and city rehabilitation. In conventional data-driven …

Material parameter identification in distributed plasticity FE models of frame-type structures using nonlinear stochastic filtering

R Astroza, H Ebrahimian, JP Conte - Journal of Engineering …, 2015 - ascelibrary.org
This paper proposes a novel framework that combines high-fidelity mechanics-based
nonlinear (hysteretic) finite-element (FE) models and a nonlinear stochastic filtering …

Vision‐based seismic damage detection and residual capacity assessment for an RC shaking table test structure

X Ji, Y Zhuang, Z Miao, Y Cheng - Earthquake Engineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, the existing postearthquake performance assessment framework for reinforced
concrete (RC) building structures is improved by adding a new feature of the computer …

Limitation of base isolation in protecting freestanding contents in buildings

F Wang, Y Huang, Z Qu - Earthquake Engineering & Structural …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Seismic base isolation performs well in protecting the drift‐and acceleration‐sensitive
elements in buildings, while its effectiveness in reducing the velocity response and thus …

Enhanced measurements of structural inter-story drift responses in shaking table tests

X Ji, X Gao, Y Zhuang, Z Qu - Engineering Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate measurements of inter-story drift responses are critical in shaking table tests. This
paper compared three commonly-used approaches of inter-story drift measurement, and …

Detection of infill wall damage due to earthquakes from vibration data

V Nicoletti, D Arezzo, S Carbonari… - … Engineering & Structural …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Vibration‐based methodologies are nowadays gaining increasing application for the
structural health monitoring and damage detection on buildings, especially damage due to …

Fragility curves for seismic damage assessment in regular and irregular MRFs using improved wavelet-based damage index

O Yazdanpanah, A Formisano, M Chang, B Mohebi - Measurement, 2021 - Elsevier
In the conventional performance‐based earthquake engineering framework, fragility curves
are mapped to a function of story drift ratio or spectral acceleration corresponding to the first …

Seismic behaviour of a traditional timber structure: shaking table tests, energy dissipation mechanism and damage assessment model

Q Xie, L Wang, L Zhang, W Hu, T Zhou - Bulletin of earthquake …, 2019 - Springer
Traditional timber structures are well known as an efficient aseismic structure. In order to
clearly understand the reasons for the good performance of the Chinese traditional timber …