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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 93

Identification of Semi-Rigid Connections from Stationary Statistical Moments

I. Failla1, N. Impollonia2 and G. Ricciardi1

1DICIEAMA, University of Messina, Italy
2DICAR, University of Catania, Siracusa, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
I. Failla, N. Impollonia, G. Ricciardi, "Identification of Semi-Rigid Connections from Stationary Statistical Moments", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 93, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.93
Keywords: parametric solution, structural identification, uncertain connection stiffness.

Summary
This paper presents a procedure for the identification of semi-rigid end connections of beam/column elements in frame structures. The technique relies on an explicit relationship between second order moments of the nodal stationary response under white noise and element end flexibilities. Such a relationship, albeit approximate, is very accurate when the element stiffness matrix is properly disassembled and can be successfully employed inside the objective function to be minimized so as to estimate the unknown parameters.

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