Detecting and Quantifying Damage in Buildings using Earthquake Response Data

The focus of this research is to develop the means to detect and quantify damage in buildings following earthquakes. The hypothesis is that building acceleration records contain sufficient characteristic information to develop the lateral-load resistance curve, also known as the capacity curve, from which the extent and locations of nonlinear behavior could be estimated.

Faculty Investigator: Ayhan Irfanoglu
Graduate Student: Jeffrey Dowgala