Damage detection in a precast structure subjected to an earthquake: A numerical approach

The leading idea of this approach is to provide an estimation of the health and remaining life of monitored structures and to detect and quantify the damage, some of the crucial issues of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). The technique is applied to a real structure, an industrial building liable to some seismic vulnerabilities. The structure has never been subjected to an earthquake, so the actual accelerations could not be recorded. For this reason, they are acquired from a second NM subjected to real and simulated earthquakes.