Affiliation:
1. Chair of Structural Mechanics, Technische Universität Berlin, Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25, 13355 Berlin, Germany
Abstract
The simultaneous consideration of a numerical model and of different observations can be achieved using data-assimilation methods. In this contribution, the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is applied to obtain the system-state development and also an estimation of unknown model parameters. An extension of the Kalman filter used is presented for the case of uncertain model parameters, which should not or cannot be estimated due to a lack of necessary measurements. It is shown that incorrectly assumed probability density functions for present uncertainties adversely affect the model parameter to be estimated. Therefore, the problem is embedded in a multilayered uncertainty space consisting of the stochastic space, the interval space, and the fuzzy space. Then, we propose classifying all present uncertainties into aleatory and epistemic ones. Aleatorically uncertain parameters can be used directly within the EnKF without an increase in computational costs and without the necessity of additional methods for the output evaluation. Epistemically uncertain parameters cannot be integrated into the classical EnKF procedure, so a multilayered uncertainty space is defined, leading to inevitable higher computational costs. Various possibilities for uncertainty quantification based on probability and possibility theory are shown, and the influence on the results is analyzed in an academic example. Here, uncertainties in the initial conditions are of less importance compared to uncertainties in system parameters that continuously influence the system state and the model parameter estimation. Finally, the proposed extension using a multilayered uncertainty space is applied on a multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) laboratory structure: a beam made of stainless steel with synthetic data or real measured data of vertical accelerations. Young’s modulus as a model parameter can be estimated in a reasonable range, independently of the measurement data generation.
Funder
German Research Foundation
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Engineering,General Environmental Science
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