Modelling and Estimation of Damage in Structures is a comprehensiveguide to solving the type of modelling and estimation problems associated with the physics of structural damage.

• Provides a model-based approach to damage identification
• Presents an in-depth treatment of probability theory and random processes
• Covers both theory and algorithms for implementing maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation approaches
• Includes experimental examples of all detection and identification approaches
• Provides a clear means by which...

Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late-nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground more avowedly modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together renowned...