Response features and parametric identification of shear-deformation buildings with continuous-discrete modeling

For illustration, this study examines response features of ten-story building of Millikan Library in Pasadena, California with the Yorba Linda earthquake of September 3, 2002. With the use of the continuous-discrete model as well as its degenerated ones, structural responses are interpreted from the perspective of wave propagation, and more importantly validated with the pertinent recordings and discrete-model-based results. Parametric identification of the building with a pair of seismic recordings is then presented. This study finally comes up a conclusion that the proposed approach with continuous-discrete modeling is efficient and robust in forward predicting analysis and inverse system identification.