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Non‐stationary seismic response of MDOF systems by wavelet transform
Author(s) -
Basu Biswajit,
Gupta Vinay K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.218
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9845
pISSN - 0098-8847
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1096-9845(199712)26:12<1243::aid-eqe708>3.0.co;2-p
Subject(s) - wavelet , spectral density , ground motion , amplitude , stochastic process , response spectrum , probability density function , mathematics , structural engineering , engineering , computer science , physics , statistics , artificial intelligence , quantum mechanics
A wavelet‐based formulation has been presented in this paper for the stochastic analysis of a linear multi‐degree‐of‐freedom (MDOF) classically damped system subjected to earthquake ground motion. The ground motion has been modelled as a non‐stationary process (both in amplitude and frequency) using wavelets. Closed‐form expressions of the moments of the instantaneous Power Spectral Density Function (PSDF) of the response have been derived and used to predict the statistics of the response peak of any desired order. For illustration of the formulation, an example torsionally coupled multistoried building has been considered along with the twenty synthetically generated time‐histories corresponding to an example ground motion process. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.