Structural Pounding Detection by Using Wavelet Scalogram

Figure 5

The El Centro earthquake excitation and responses of the SDOF structure: (a) ground acceleration, PGA = 0.05 g, (b) displacement response; (c) acceleration response; (d) pounding force; (e) single-sided amplitude spectrum of the acceleration; (f) wavelet scalogram of acceleration.

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