| Title |
Wind Load Estimation of Building Using the Kalman Filter |
| Keywords |
Wind Load ; Acceleration of Building ; Kalman Filter ; Filter Gain ; Correction Factor |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study is to develop a procedure to estimate the wind loads from the accelerations of a building structure. The wind loads may be directly calculated simply integrating the wind pressures of the overall structure. But, these methods are too expensive and impossible to implement in some cases. In this study, a simple method is proposed to estimate the wind loads using the Kalman filter. This method is very stable compared to the direct integration of the acceleration to get the velocity or displacement. The proposed method is verified thorough numerical analysis, and results show that the proposed method is robust and estimates the wind loads accurately as the number of accelerometer is increasing. |