scholarly journals Time-Varying Modal Parameters Identification by Subspace Tracking Algorithm and Its Validation Method

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Haotian Zhou ◽  
Kaiping Yu ◽  
Yushu Chen ◽  
Rui Zhao ◽  
Yunhe Bai

This article presents a time-varying modal parameter identification method based on the novel information criterion (NIC) algorithm and a post-process method for time-varying modal parameter estimation. In the practical application of the time-varying modal parameter identification algorithm, the identified results contain both real modal parameters and aberrant ones caused by the measurement noise. In order to improve the quality of the identified results as well as sifting and validating the real modal parameters, a post-process procedure based on density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) algorithm is introduced. The efficiency of the proposed approach is first verified through a numerical simulation of a cantilever Euler-Bernoulli beam with a time-varying mass. Then the proposed approach is experimentally demonstrated by composite sandwich structure in a time-varying high temperature environment. The identified results illustrate that the proposed approach can obtain real modal frequencies in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios.

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 457-464
Author(s):  
Yulin Zhou ◽  
Xulei Jiang ◽  
Mingjin Zhang ◽  
Jinxiang Zhang ◽  
Hao Sun ◽  
...  

In the wind tunnel test of a long-span bridge model, to ensure that the dynamic characteristics of the model can satisfy the test design requirements, it is particularly important to accurately identify the modal parameters of the model. First, the stochastic subspace identification algorithm was used to analyze the modal parameters of the model in the wind tunnel test; then, Grubbs criterion was introduced to effectively eliminate outliers in the damping ratio matrix. Stochastic subspace identification algorithm with Grubbs criterion improved the accuracy of the modal parameter identification and the ability to determine system matrix order and prevented the modal omissions caused by determining the stable condition of the damping ratio in the stability diagram. Finally, Oujiang Bridge was used as an example to verify the stochastic subspace identification algorithm with Grubbs criterion and compare with the results of the finite element method. The example shows that the improved method can be effectively applied to the modal parameter identification of bridges.


2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 5444-5449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Min Wang ◽  
Fang Lin Huang

A method for modal parameter identification of time-varying structures based on Hilbert- Huang transform (HHT) is presented. Theoretical formulas for identifying the modal frequency and damping radio using the displacement response of a time-varying SDOF structure are deduced. Taking advantage of modal filtering characteristics of empirical mode decomposition (EMD), the presented method is expanded to identify the modal parameters of MDOF structures. Numerical simulation of a three degrees of freedom structure with time-varying stiffness and damping show the validity of the method. Finally, a time-varying structure experiment is designed to further study the method. The experimental device is a cantilever beam. By adjusting the adjunctive mass and stiffness, two kinds of time-varying structures with continuous mass change and stiffness change is realized respectively. Modal parameters are identified from the free acceleration response of the beam.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tianxu Zhu ◽  
Chaoping Zang ◽  
Gengbei Zhang

The measured frequency response functions (FRFs) in the modal test are usually contaminated with noise that significantly affects the modal parameter identification. In this paper, a modal peak-based Hankel-SVD (MPHSVD) method is proposed to eliminate the noise contaminated in the measured FRFs in order to improve the accuracy of the identification of modal parameters. This method is divided into four steps. Firstly, the measured FRF signal is transferred to the impulse response function (IRF), and the Hankel-SVD method that works better in the time domain rather than in the frequency domain is further applied for the decomposition of component signals. Secondly, the iteration of the component signal accumulation is conducted to select the component signals that cover the concerned modal features, but some component signals of the residue noise may also be selected. Thirdly, another iteration considering the narrow frequency bands near the modal peak frequencies is conducted to further eliminate the residue noise and get the noise-reduced FRF signal. Finally, the modal identification method is conducted on the noise-reduced FRF to extract the modal parameters. A simulation of the FRF of a flat plate artificially contaminated with the random Gaussian noise and the random harmonic noise is implemented to verify the proposed method. Afterwards, a modal test of a flat plate under the high-temperature condition was undertaken using scanning laser Doppler vibrometry (SLDV). The noise reduction and modal parameter identification were exploited to the measured FRFs. Results show that the reconstructed FRFs retained all of the modal features we concerned about after the noise elimination, and the modal parameters are precisely identified. It demonstrates the superiority and effectiveness of the approach.


2013 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Jin Bao Ma ◽  
Jian Yu Zhang ◽  
Xin Bo Liu

With the evolution and degradation of mechanical fault, changes of the structural inherent characteristics will directly affect the overall response of system. Spur gear, which worked as the research object, is to be explored on the changes of modal parameters under different damage state. Optimum driving-point mobility and modal parameter identification is achieved by comprehensive utilization of experimental modal analysis and finite element analysis. is used to determine the experiment results is whether accurate or not. Then comparing with the differences of modal parameters, the preliminary judgment of gear damage can be made. According to the experimental data of different gears, theis taken to complete the correlation analysis and to judge the degree of the damage. The results shows that provide an effective basis for the identification of vibration mechanism and vibration characteristic of fault gear.


Author(s):  
Wenlong Yang ◽  
Lei Li ◽  
Qiang Fu ◽  
Yao Teng ◽  
Shuqing Wang ◽  
...  

Experimental modal analysis (EMA) is widely implemented to obtain the modal parameters of an offshore platform, which is crucial to many practical engineering issues, such as vibration control, finite element model updating and structural health monitoring. Traditionally, modal parameters are identified from the information of both the input excitation and output response. However, as the size of offshore platforms becomes huger, imposing artificial excitation is usually time-consuming, expensive, sophisticated and even impossible. To address this problem, a preferred solution is operational modal analysis (OMA), which means the modal testing and analysis for a structure is in its operational condition subjected to natural excitation with output-only measurements. This paper investigate the applicability of utilizing response from natural ice loading for operational modal analysis of real offshore platforms. The test platform is the JZ20-2MUQ Jacket platform located in the Bohai Bay, China. A field experiment is carried out in winter season, when the platform is excited by floating ices. An accelerometer is installed on a leg and two segments of acceleration response are employed for identifying the modal parameters. In the modal parameter identification, specifically applied is the data-driven stochastic sub-space identification (SSI-data) method. It is one of the most advanced methods based on the first-order stochastic model and the QR algorithm for computing the structural eigenvalues. To distinguish the structural modal information, stability diagrams are constructed by identifying parametric models of increasing order. Observing the stability diagrams, the modal frequencies and damping ratios of four structural modes can be successfully identified from both segments. The estimated information from both segments are almost identical, which demonstrates the identification is trustworthy. Besides, the stability diagrams from SSI-data method are very clean, and the poles associated with structural modes can become stabilized at very low model order. The research in this paper is meaningful for the platforms serving in cold regions, where the ices could be widespread. Utilizing the response from natural ice loading for modal parameter identification would be efficient and cost-effective.


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