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Published 1987 | public
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The Stochastic Response of Strongly Yielding Systems: A new look at an old problem

Abstract

The bilinear hysteretic model is used to examine the nature of the stochastic response of strongly yielding (nearly elasto-plastic) systems. Both second-order and third-order equivalent linearization schemes are examined. It is shown that although these approximate techniques generally give acceptable results for second-order response statistics they fail to yield an accurate description of the nature of the response in the frequency domain. The influence of the excitation Power Spectrum on the response is examined. The desirability of decomposing the response into an elastic and inelastic component is demonstrated.

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© Springer-Verlag 1987. This investigation was sponsored in part by Grant No. ECE84-03780 from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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