Research Article
Impulse response analysis of the Van Nuys 7-storey hotel during 11 earthquakes and earthquake damage detection
Maria I. Todorovska,
Mihailo D. Trifunac,
Corresponding Author
Maria I. Todorovska
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.
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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorMihailo D. Trifunac
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.
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Search for more papers by this authorMaria I. Todorovska,
Mihailo D. Trifunac,
Corresponding Author
Maria I. Todorovska
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.
Research Professor.
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this authorMihailo D. Trifunac
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2531, U.S.A.
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Wave travel times of vertically propagating waves are measured in the Van Nuys 7-storey hotel, located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, from impulse response functions computed by deconvolution of the recorded earthquake response. East-West response data from 11 earthquakes over a period of 24 years are analysed. Changes in wave travel times are used to infer about local (between sensors) and global changes of structural stiffness, from one event to another, and with time during the earthquakes that damaged the building (San Fernando and Northridge). Also, wave travel times are used to estimate the fundamental fixed-base frequency of the building, f1, which is compared with independent estimates of the soil–structure system frequency fsys during the same earthquakes and during five ambient vibration tests. The analysis shows that monitoring only the changes of fsys can be misleading for structural health monitoring and can lead to erroneous alarms, while monitoring changes of f1 over suitably chosen time windows (before, during, and after excitation by strong earthquake motions) can be a powerful and robust tool for structural health monitoring. It is concluded that, under favourable conditions, this method can be used as a tool for global and local structural health monitoring. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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