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Transactions of FAMENA, Vol. 43 No. 3, 2019.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21278/TOF.43303

Experimental Study on the Effect of Excitation Type on the Output-Only Modal Analysis Results

Sina Varahram ; Vibration and Modal Analysis Research Lab, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Peyman Jalali ; Vibration and Modal Analysis Research Lab, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Morteza H. Sadeghi ; Vibration and Modal Analysis Research Lab, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Saeed Lotfan ; Vibration and Modal Analysis Research Lab, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

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Abstract

Output-only Modal Analysis (OMA) has found extensive use in the identification of dynamic properties of structures. This study aims to investigate the effect of excitation force on the accuracy of modal parameters. For this purpose, the modal parameters of a simply supported beam are obtained through the Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) and the OMA method using three different types of artificial and natural excitations, namely a shaker, acoustic waves, and environmental noise. Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) technique is used to identify dynamic characteristics. Finally, these results are compared with those obtained by the analytical method and the EMA method. The results demonstrated the following: 1) Acoustic excitation presents the natural frequencies with the smallest errors in comparison with the analytical results. 2) Inaccuracy is observed at certain natural frequencies during the excitation with a shaker with respect to the connecting point between the shaker and the beam. 3) Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) showed that the mode shapes extracted by the acoustic excitations are more similar to the analytical results.

Keywords

Vibration; Output-only Modal Analysis; Experimental Modal Analysis; Frequency Domain Decomposition; Singular Values

Hrčak ID:

227491

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/227491

Publication date:

22.11.2019.

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