Experimental Modal Analysis based on a Gray-box Model of Flexible Structures

Alberto Cavallo, Giuseppe De Maria, Michele Iadevaia, Ciro Natale, Salvatore Pirozzi

2015

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to propose an experimental modal analysis procedure, based on the use of a gray-box model for flexible structures. The described approach presents interesting advantages with respect to commercial solutions: ease of use due to the low number of parameters to set for an identification session; no need for expert users, even in the presence of particular cases such as double modes, since it does not use a stabilization diagram to be elaborated; use of a gray-box model whose unknown parameters have a clear physical meaning. All these characteristics are discussed in the paper, and the performance of the proposed procedure has been evaluated by using experimental data available from a non-trivial standard benchmark. The results have been compared with those obtained by using a commercial tool.

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Cavallo A., De Maria G., Iadevaia M., Natale C. and Pirozzi S. (2015). Experimental Modal Analysis based on a Gray-box Model of Flexible Structures . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-122-9, pages 439-447. DOI: 10.5220/0005504304390447


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco15,
author={Alberto Cavallo and Giuseppe De Maria and Michele Iadevaia and Ciro Natale and Salvatore Pirozzi},
title={Experimental Modal Analysis based on a Gray-box Model of Flexible Structures},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2015},
pages={439-447},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005504304390447},
isbn={978-989-758-122-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Experimental Modal Analysis based on a Gray-box Model of Flexible Structures
SN - 978-989-758-122-9
AU - Cavallo A.
AU - De Maria G.
AU - Iadevaia M.
AU - Natale C.
AU - Pirozzi S.
PY - 2015
SP - 439
EP - 447
DO - 10.5220/0005504304390447