Research Article

Complete Inverse Method Using Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Structural Parameters and Excitation Identification from Output Only Measurements

Table 6

Identified results for continuous hammer hits on the top floor.

Computation response segmentsIdentification results and identification errors
Error Error Error

12.0~12.33 s5.5252−1.97 5.54541.62 5.64210.10
13.0~13.33 s5.54621.60 5.63720.01 5.68880.93
27.0~27.33 s5.58041.00 5.67450.67 5.64460.14
28.0~28.33 s5.59290.77 5.49822.45 5.72041.49
39.4~39.73 s5.50382.35 5.49162.57 5.56971.19
40.4~40.73 s5.49552.50 5.50772.29 5.62380.23
43.4~43.73 s5.47192.92 5.61140.45 5.53321.83
Average value5.5308 −1.87 5.5666−1.24 5.6318 −0.08