
Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Parametric identification of building structures with seismic recordings
Ruichong Zhang
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Lotfi O. Gargab
Tripoli, Libya
ABSTRACT: This study presents system identification of ten-story Millikan Library in Pasadena, California
with a pair of theYorba Linda earthquake of September 3, 2002. The proposed identification approach is based
on wave features of generalized impulse and frequency response function (GIRF or GFRF), i.e., wave response
at one str