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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 152

Response of Structures with Uncertain-but-Bounded Parameters subjected to Dynamic Actions

T. Alderucci1, G. Muscolino1 and A. Sofi2

1Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering with Information Technology and Applied Mathematics, University of Messina, Italy
2Department of Civil, Energy, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
T. Alderucci, G. Muscolino, A. Sofi, "Response of Structures with Uncertain-but-Bounded Parameters subjected to Dynamic Actions", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 152, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.152
Keywords: uncertain-but-bounded parameters, interval analysis, dynamic response, particular solution, lower and upper bounds..

Summary
The dynamic analysis of linear structures with uncertain parameters subjected to deterministic excitations is addressed. The fluctuating structural properties are modelled as uncertain-but-bounded parameters using interval analysis. In this paper, a novel procedure for estimating the lower and upper bounds of the dynamic response is proposed. Basically, the method expresses the response as sum of the interval particular solution, evaluated in approximate explicit form, and the interval transient response obtained by means of approximate relationships. Once the sets of ordinary differential equations governing the response are solved, the bounds of the response are obtained by handy formulas.

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