Estimation method of maximum inter-story drift angle of wood-frame house using two accelerometers

Ryusei Fukuzawa, Akira Mita, Tomonori Murakami

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Abstract

In April 2016, Kumamoto earthquake occurred in Japan and many wooden houses collapsed and many lives were lost because of the second and larger main shock. As a result, the need for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for wooden houses is receiving increased attention. In the SHM system, maximum inter-story drift angle is considered as the damage index. We assume that the first story of a wooden house will be damaged so that we need only to focus on the response of this first story. Hence, we install accelerometers on the ground floor and the second floor. In order to estimate the inter-story drift angle, we need to integrate the acceleration records twice. The simple double integration will result in erroneous results. Thus, in this paper, we propose the most appropriate integration method to estimate the maximum story drift angle with high accuracy using two accelerometers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationStructural Health Monitoring - 8th Asia Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, 8APWSHM 2020, proceedings
EditorsN. Rajic, M. Veidt, A. Mita, N. Takeda, W.K. Chiu
PublisherAssociation of American Publishers
Pages179-185
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781644901304
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, APWSHM 2020 - Cairns, Australia
Duration: 2020 Dec 92020 Dec 11

Publication series

NameMaterials Research Proceedings
Volume18
ISSN (Print)2474-3941
ISSN (Electronic)2474-395X

Conference

Conference8th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, APWSHM 2020
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityCairns
Period20/12/920/12/11

Keywords

  • Maximum Inter-Story Drift Angle
  • Structural Health Monitoring
  • Wood-Frame Construction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science

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