Research Article
Identification of Sudden Stiffness Change in the Acceleration Response of a Nonlinear Hysteretic Structure
Table 7
The parameters encoded in the IMPSCO for the MR damper experiment.
| Parameters | Description | Initial range of parameters |
| f0 | Initial damping force | | c | Damping of MR damper | | k | Stiffness of MR damper | | | Bilinear factor defined as the post- to preyield stiffness ratio of the system | | | The loop fatness of the system | | | The loop pinching of the system | | n | The abruptness parameter of the system | |
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