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Functionally Graded Beams as Surrogate Structural Models: Shear Beam with Exponentially Graded Rigidity by Todorovska, Maria I., Ali, Haidar, Rahmani, Mohammadtaghi

“…AbstractAn exact analytical solution, in terms of Bessel functions, was derived for the dynamic response of a shear beam with uniform cross section and mass…”
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Wave Propagation in a Timoshenko Beam Building Model by Ebrahimian, Mahdi, Todorovska, Maria I

“…AbstractThis study analyzes wave propagation in a Timoshenko beam model of a high-rise building excited by base motion. This model accounts for wave dispersion…”
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Structural System Identification of Buildings by a Wave Method Based on a Nonuniform Timoshenko Beam Model by Ebrahimian, Mahdi, Todorovska, Maria I

“…AbstractA nonuniform Timoshenko beam model of a building, with piecewise constant properties along the height, is presented, along with an algorithm for…”
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Damage Detection and Localization in a Full-Scale Slice of a Seven-Story Shear Wall Building Tested on the UCSD-NEES Shake Table by Rahmani, Mohammadtaghi, Todorovska, Maria I., Grabinski, Jaime R., Ebrahimian, Mahdi

“…AbstractThe capability of the wave method for structural health monitoring, based on fitting a layered Timoshenko beam by waveform inversion of impulse…”
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Wave Method for Structural Health Monitoring: Testing Using Full-Scale Shake Table Experiment Data by Ebrahimian, M, Todorovska, M. I, Falborski, T

“…AbstractAn algorithm of the wave method for structural health monitoring (SHM) is tested and calibrated using shake table experiment data of a full-scale,…”
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Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building III: Analysis of wave travel times via impulse response functions by Todorovska, Maria I., Trifunac, Mihailo D.

“…The majority of structural health monitoring methods are based on detecting changes in the modal properties, which are global characteristics of the structure,…”
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Collapsing Response of a Nonlinear Shear-Beam Building Model Excited by Horizontal and Vertical Strong-Motion Pulses at Its Base by Abbasgholiha, Hamid, Gičev, Vlado, Trifunac, Mihailo D., Jalali, Reza S., Todorovska, Maria I.

“…The sequence of collapsing stages of buildings during strong earthquake shaking is still a poorly understood phenomenon. This study aims to use numerical…”
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Collapsing Response of a Nonlinear Shear-Beam Building Model Excited by a Strong-Motion Pulse at Its Base by Abbasgholiha, Hamid, Gičev, Vlado, Trifunac, Mihailo D., Jalali, Reza S., Todorovska, Maria I.

“…We present a simple nonlinear model of a shear-beam building that experiences large nonlinear deformations and collapse when excited by large pulses of strong…”
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Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building I: The data and time–frequency analysis by Todorovska, Maria I., Trifunac, Mihailo D.

“…The former Imperial County Services Building was a six-story reinforced concrete structure in the El Centro, California, severely damaged by the 1979 Imperial…”
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Structural health monitoring of a 32‐storey steel‐frame building using 50 years of seismic monitoring data by Rahmani, Mohammadtaghi, Todorovska, Maria I.

“…The case study, Los Angeles 32‐storey residential building, has an exceptionally long seismic observation history, spanning 50 years (1971‐2020), during which…”
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Earthquake damage detection in the Imperial County Services Building II: Analysis of novelties via wavelets by Todorovska, Maria I., Trifunac, Mihailo D.

“…The former Imperial County Services Building is a rare case of an instrumented building damaged by an earthquake. In this paper, it is used to test a…”
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Significance of the Ki-67 proliferation index in the assessment of the therapeutic response to cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with advanced cervical cancer by Krtinic, D, Zivadinovic, R, Jovic, Z, Pesic, S, Mihailovic, D, Ristic, L, Cvetanovic, A, Todorovska, I, Zivkovic, N, Rankovic, G N, Stokanovic, D, Zivadinovic, B, Trandafilovic, M, Apostolovic, M A, Golubovic, M, Zivadinovic, A

“…The purposes of this study were to examine the therapeutic response of advanced cervical cancer to Ki-67 proliferative index (Ki-67 PI) dependent cisplatin…”
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Effects of rainfall on soil–structure system frequency: Examples based on poroelasticity and a comparison with full-scale measurements by Todorovska, Maria I., Al Rjoub, Yousef

“…In this paper, a simple two-dimensional soil–structure interaction model, based on Biot's theory of wave propagation in fluid saturated porous media, is used…”
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Apparent Periods of a Building. II: Time-Frequency Analysis by Trifunac, M. D, Ivanovi, S. S, Todorovska, M. I

“…In this, the second of a two-part paper, the analysis of the apparent frequency of a seven-story reinforced-concrete hotel building in Van Nuys, Calif., is…”
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Plain strain soil–structure interaction model for a building supported by a circular foundation embedded in a poroelastic half-space by Todorovska, Maria I., Al Rjoub, Yousef

“…A simple theoretical model for soil–structure interaction in water saturated poroelastic soils is presented, developed to explore if the apparent…”
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Apparent Periods of a Building. I: Fourier Analysis by Trifunac, M. D, Ivanovi, S. S, Todorovska, M. I

“…This and the companion paper present an analysis of the amplitude and time-dependent changes of the apparent frequency of a seven-story reinforced-concrete…”
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Prediction of building response at any level from recorded roof response: The Kanai–Yoshizawa formula revisited by Ebrahimian, M., Trifunac, M.D., Todorovska, M.I.

“…In the 1960s, Kanai and Yoshizawa proposed a simple formula for computing the response of a building at the base or at an intermediate level from recorded…”
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A note on the useable dynamic range of accelerographs recording translation by Trifunac, M.D., Todorovska, M.I.

“…Since the late 1970s, the dynamic range and resolution of strong motion digital recorders have leaped from 65 to 135 dB, opening new possibilities for advanced…”
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Variability in parameter estimation for a tall steel-frame building by Rahmani, Mohammadtaghi, Barjani, Armin, Todorovska, Maria I

“…The between-event variability in identified shear wave velocities of fitted four-layer beam models in the response of a 54-story steel-frame building during…”
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Time-wave velocity analysis for early earthquake damage detection in buildings: application to a damaged full-scale RC building by Rahmani, Mohammadtaghi, Ebrahimian, Mahdi, Todorovska, Maria I.

“…Summary An algorithm for time velocity analysis of building response is presented, which identifies the wave velocity of vertically propagating waves through…”
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