SIMILARITY ESTIMATION OF SEISMIC WAVES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE EFFECTS ON STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS BASED ON NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL RESPONSE AS FEATURE INDICES

Abstract

We use response values of nonlinear structural model as feature indices of ground motions. Monte Carlo simulation of dynamic analyses give probability distributions of feature indices. Kullback-Leibler divergence is used for evaluation of feature indices of ground motion. The performance of proposed scheme is verified by numerical simulations.