Module 4: Quantification

At this stage we have:

• bFU , bFD : Undamaged & Damaged Flexibility and damage location

• b is immaterial for finding % Damage

• Assume m1 is known and solve for b:

Fit a shear building model allowing only k1 to change

Stiffness of all floors assumed unknown

%D (exact) = 71.0

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