Detection of pulse-like ground motions based on continues wavelet transform |
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| Authors: | Saman Yaghmaei-Sabegh |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, GR26504, Greece |
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| Abstract: | This paper implements a quantitative approach to detect pulse-like ground motions based on continues wavelet transform, which
is able to clearly identify sudden jumps in time history of earthquake records by considering contribution of different levels
of frequency. These analyses were performed on a set of time series records obtained in near-fault regions of Iran. Pulse-like
ground motions frequently resulted from directivity effects in near-fault area and are of interest in the field of seismology
and also earthquake engineering for seismic performance evaluation of structures. The results of this study basically help
us to establish a suitable platform for selecting pulse-like records, while performance evaluation of structure in near-fault
area will need to account. The period of velocity pulses as a key parameter that significantly affects structural response
is simply determined by using a pseudo-period of the mother wavelets. In addition, the efficiency of different types of mother
wavelets on classification performance and the features of detected pulse are investigated by applying seven different kinds
of mother wavelets. The analyses indicate that the selection of most appropriate mother wavelet plays a significant role in
effective extraction of ground motion features and consequently in estimation of velocity pulse period. As a result, the user
should be aware of what is selected as a mother wavelet in the analysis. The comparisons given here among different mother
wavelets also show the better performance of BiorSpline (bior1.3) basis from biorthognal wavelet families for the preferred
purpose in this paper. |
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