Abstract
One of coauthors stated that in case of framed structures under static loading conditions, the summation of the product of response sensitivity coefficients and sensitivity variables over all of the structures equals response values multiplied by a constant, and that constant value differs depending on the selected sensitivity variables and the order of sensitivity coefficients. We call the property which sensitivity coefficients have, the characteristic of sensitivity coefficients. The characteristic of sensitivity coefficients stated above, exists also in case of sensitivity coefficients of eigenvalues and eigenvectors. In this paper these characteristic of sensitivity coefficients are summarized. And the physical meaning and applications of the characteristic of sensitivity coefficients are explained.
