Research Article

An Extended Time Series Algorithm for Modal Identification from Nonstationary Ambient Response Data Only

Table 4

The results of initial estimation for the AR parameters and the coefficients of polynomial base function from the nonstationary response data through the three-stage least-square method (, , ).

AR parameterThe coefficient of polynomial base function

−5.9460.6531.1220.7120.3550.173
14.7902.705−0.751−0.8470.492−0.271
−19.697−10.1083.9823.532−1.7620.981
14.81510.482−6.499−4.3452.678−2.100
−5.966−2.8713.3361.576−1.3921.373
1.005