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Modal tests on buildings: correlating large amounts of acquisitions with different space-time collocations

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Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering

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Abstract

This article deals with a method for the time and space superposition of data acquired in the dynamical testing of large structures. The method permits two procedures comprising the integration of sets of measurements taken at different times and the integration of sets of measurements taken at different places. The latter is a very useful feature when dealing with huge structures, such as big buildings comprising a number of different architectural details. The validation of this method is a case study consisting of many dynamical tests performed on an ancient castle.