III. Where to Find General Information on System Identification and Its Applications
in Structural Engineering Especially Earthquake Engineering?

1. Books –

To learn basic concepts and approaches in system identifications, here are several popular textbooks adopted
widely in control engineering and electrical engineering. These textbooks are fairly widely adopted by
structural engineering community as very useful resources. For books on more specific topics, refer to
Part II of this website.

Applied System Identification
by Jer-Nan Juang
400 pages
Pearson Education POD, 1993
ISBN: 013079211X

Identification and Control of Mechanical Systems
by Jer-Nan Juang, Minh Q. Phan
384 pages
Cambridge University Press, 2001
ISBN: 0521783550

System Identification: Theory for the User (2nd Edition)
by Lennart Ljung
609 pages
Prentice Hall PTR, 1999
ISBN: 0136566952

2. Journals –

Very often, research papers on system identification and its applications can be found in these technical journals.

3. Conferences and Proceedings –

Some leading conferences and workshops related to system identification and its applications are listed here.

4. Class Notes and Other Web Materials –

Condition Monitoring, Sheffield University

In this comprehensive website, various concepts, methods, publications, software and date sets are available on
structural health monitoring, damage and damage prognosis. It is a very good place to start to learn
system identification and structural health monitoring.
LANL Structural Health Monitoring

An interesting fact you will notice is that the many researchers active in system identification are also active in
structural control, structural health monitoring, damage detection as well as earthquake engineering. The list here is
not an exhaustive list of researchers who are working on system identification and related fields of
structural control, structural dynamics and health monitoring. It merely helps you start your search on
system identification personnel.

7. Software –

Matlab System Identification Toolbox

An Matlab software package from LANL for modal analysis, model correction and damage identification

8. Educational Website –

Earthquake Engineering Education: A Modern Approach
By S.J.Dyke, et al

A vivid real-time educational demonstration broadcast through the internet for instrumentation, data acquisition
and data processing to monitor a real structure, a flag pole.
Flag Pole, MIT

University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables (UCIST)
Instructional Shake Tables: A Cooperative Effort in Earthquake Engineering Education
Instructional manuals for both students and instructors can be downloaded on many interesting laboratory
demonstrations and verifications relating to a wide range of earthquake engineering problems.

WEAVE, Duke University
Various instructional modules are being built to provide a web-based educational framework for analysis,
visualization, and experimentation.