Bayesian Uncertainty Identification of Model Parameters for the Jointed Structures with Nonlinearity

Table 1

Comparison of the example cases.

Item		Case 1	Case 2	Case 3
Nonlinear/linear		Nonlinear	Linear	Nonlinear
Uncertainty		Epistemic	Aleatory	Epistemic and aleatory
Parameters (N/m)	k1	1000	1000	1000
	k2	2000	Normal dist.	Normal dist.
	k3	2000	2000	2000
	k4		2000	c∼normal dist.
	k5	1000	Gamma dist.	Gamma dist.