SUMMARYPresent study aims to develop Hilbert-Huang transformation based signal processing scheme to identify the modal parameters of a reinforced concrete framed building subjected to multi-component earthquake excitations. An adaptive band-pass filtering strategy is developed to identify modal parameters (i.e. natural frequencies, damping and mode shapes). The proposed method is unique as it identifies the system parameters from the limited measurements due to arbitrary non-stationary excitations. The advantage of this technique is its ability to extract a complete set of modal frequencies from each measurement. The mode shapes are identified by updating the finite element model using the estimated modal parameters. In this context, the proposed method is effective as the large number of modal parameters identified from each measurement help to optimize the finite element model. The accuracy of the proposed method is demonstrated using both synthetic and actual measurements during an earthquake.

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Mechanical damages in structures changes its geometry in various ways. However, if damage size comparing to structure size is small, thus observation of this damage could be hard or even impossible in some cases. For this reason, changes in structure’s vibration responses are investigated nowadays. The objective of this research is to investigate the influence of damage size to the vibration response of the mechanical structure – aluminum alloy plate. To achieve this aim, modal analysis of a reference, i.e. health, and multiple damaged structures using ANSYS Workbench, and calculation of modal assurance criterion (MAC) using Matlab were carried out in this research. During this research 6 different damage sizes were modelled and its vibration response was compared to the health one. Obtained results revealed that the bending modes rarely shows any trend towards damages scenario. But, when observing the MAC values matrices, the values related to torsional modes even on the diagonal of the matrices decrease as the damage size increases, which indicates that the damage has more influence on the torsional modes.