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Ambient vibration tests are then carried out on the same grandstand, and used to extract the natural frequencies and vibration modes of the system, according to conventional state-of-the-art output-only modal parameter identification techniques. A sensitivity investigation and FE model updating study is hence presented for the grandstand, giving evidence of the major influencing parameters and key input data for the numerical fitting of the experimental modal testing results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/buildings8100141","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,12]],"date-time":"2018-10-12T10:54:03Z","timestamp":1539341643000},"page":"141","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Dynamic Characterisation and Finite Element Updating of a RC Stadium Grandstand"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Filipe","family":"Santos","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, ICIST and Departamento de Engenheria Civil da Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5703-8072","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Corneliu","family":"Cisma\u015fiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, ICIST and Departamento de Engenheria Civil da Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7662-1215","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ildi","family":"Cisma\u015fiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, ICIST and Departamento de Engenheria Civil da Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3875-2817","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chiara","family":"Bedon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"IStructE (2008). 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