Random Vibration Analysis for a Building under Evolutionary Random Excitations

Abstract

For a building under evolutionary random excitations, a new random vibration analysis based on equivalent excitation method is presented, in which, the equivalent excitation is constructed by using continuous wavelet transform. When the input power spectral density of a seismic excitation is modulated by a time varying function, the continuous wavelet coefficients are calculated firstly by using scales and the evolutionary power spectral density, then the equivalent excitation is constructed by inverse continuous wavelet transform, finally the random vibration analysis is carried out following the procedures of the equivalent excitation method. An example is given to show the whole procedure, in which the special ability of the method for dealing with the evolutionary random excitation is discussed in detail.