Then the quaternion qbg(0) can be obtained by the eigenvector associated with the largest positive eigenvalue of the four-dimensional matrix KM, which is as follow. B + BT − tr(B)I3 KM = MT ∑βi×αi i=0 M ∑βi×αi i=0 tr(...
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). 1. Introduction During civil engineering infrastructures' serving time, the possibility of accidental impact loads ...