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  title info:
    title: Improvements in the accuracy of system identification and nondestructive damage evaluation in civil engineering structures
  name:
    name part: Nam, Dong-Ho.
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 268 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Many system identification (SID) techniques for estimating structural parameters and nondestructive damage evaluation (NDE) algorithms for assessing the structural integrity of civil engineering structures have been proposed and developed on various theoretical and experimental grounds. The identified structural parameters of the structures obtained using SID techniques can then be applied to the problems of NDE. Inaccurate results from a SID technique may yield incorrect locations and severity estimation of damage obtained from an NDE algorithm in civil engineering structures such as offshore structures and bridges. Therefore, more accurate SID and NDE methods for structural systems are paramount and one of the more pressing problems in the civil engineering field. In order to improve the accuracy of a SID technique and an NDE algorithm in civil engineering structures, the use of additional spectral information and an improved damage index are explored in this study. First, a baseline SID technique and NDE algorithm are selected. Second, an extended SID technique including additional spectral information and retaining the basic structure of the baseline SID is derived. Third, an extended NDE algorithm is developed to overcome some limitations of the baseline NDE algorithm. To demonstrate the improvements of the accuracy in SID and NDE using the extended methods, numerical and experimental studies are performed.
  note: by Dong-Ho Nam.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Civil Engineering".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 218-223).
  subject:
    topic: Major civil engineering
  identifier: 30-20098 UMI
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020517
    record change date: 20190325103119.0
    record identifier: in00001686141