Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Shear wave travel times in multi-story buildings for system identification
and damage detection
E. ¸Safak, E. Çaktı & E. Zengin
Bo˘gaziçi University, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Istanbul, Turkey
ABSTRACT: Seismic response of multi-story buildings can be formulated as a one-dimensional wave propa-
gation problem in terms of wave velocities and frictional damping values at each story, and the wave reflection
and transmission coefficients at each floor. A critical parameter of the wave propagation approach is the wave
velocities (or, wave travel times) in the building. ...