Seismic Damage Assessment of Instrumented Wood-frame Buildings: A Case-study of NEESWood Full-scale Shake Table Tests
Provides a method for seismic damage assessment of wood-frame buildings, a domain-specific problem, but the approach is incremental as it applies existing observer techniques to a new building type.
The authors developed a nonlinear model-based state observer to estimate seismic response and compute element-by-element damage indices for wood-frame buildings, validated using full-scale shake table test data.
The authors propose a methodology to perform seismic damage assessment of instrumented wood-frame buildings using response measurements. The proposed methodology employs a nonlinear model-based state observer that combines sparse acceleration measurements and a nonlinear structural model of a building to estimate the complete seismic response including displacements, velocity, acceleration and internal forces in all structural members. From the estimated seismic response and structural characteristics of each shear wall of the building, element-by-element seismic damage indices are computed and remaining useful life (pertaining to seismic effects) is predicted. The methodology is illustrated using measured data from the 2009 NEESWood Capstone full-scale shake table tests at the E-Defense facility in Japan.