Vibration Testing and Applications in System Identification of Civil Engineering Structures

Lam, Heung Fai is currently Associate Professor at Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, and Associate Editor of Engineering Structures.Yang, Jia-Hua is currently Associate Professor at College of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Scientific Research Center of Engineering Mechanics, Guangxi University (China).

• 1 Introduction 2 Fundamental of Structural Dynamics 3 Modal Analysis Based on Power Spectral Density Data 4 Modal Analysis Based on Cross-correlation Data 5 System Identification Based on Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models 6 Modal updating by minimizing errors in modal parameters 7 Bayesian Model Updating Based on Markov chain Monte Carlo