Contents Recursive design in this book is composed of some simple basic steps. They are
referred to as “backstepping designs” because they step back toward the control input …

Hysteresis is a natural phenomenon that widely exists in structural and mechanical systems.
The characteristics of structural hysteretic behaviors are complicated. Therefore, numerous …

Structural systems often show nonlinear behavior under severe excitations generated by
natural hazards. In that condition, the restoring force becomes highly nonlinear showing …

The use of heterogeneous, non‐collocated measurements for nonlinear structural system
identification is explored herein. In particular, this paper considers the example of sensor …

A damage detection methodology is proposed by integrating a nonlinear recursive filter and
a non-contact computer vision based algorithm to measure structural dynamic responses. A …

Hysterisis is a system property that is fundamental to a range of engineering applications as
the components of systems with hysterisis are able to react differently to different forces …

The identification of structural damage is an important objective of health monitoring for civil
infrastructures. System identification and damage detection based on measured vibration …

Over the past few decades, structural system identification based on vibration
measurements has attracted much attention in the structural dynamics field. The well‐known …

The Bouc-Wen model, widely used in structural and mechanical engineering, gives an
analytical description of a smooth hysteretic behavior. In practice, the Bouc-Wen model is …

The focus of this paper is Bayesian state and parameter estimation using nonlinear models.
A recently developed method, the particle filter, is studied that is based on stochastic …