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Experimental Modal Analysis

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 330-0513/02
Abbreviation EMA
Course title Experimental Modal Analysis
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Mechanics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Michal Šofer, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

Modal test, its purpose and way of performing, basic concepts.
Dual channel analysis, definition of basic functions, coherence function.
Mobility measurement methods, basic measurement set-up.
Analyzers, digital signal processing.
Excitation methods.
Introduction to experimental modal analysis theory. One degree-of-freedom system, description and properties of 1 DOF frequency response function.
Undamped multi degree-of-freedom system, orthogonal properties and modal shapes scaling.
Damped multi degree-of-freedom system, types of damping.
Methods of extracting modal parameters.
Creating mathematical models of a structure (response, modal and spatial models).
Methods of comparing theoretical (FEM) model and experimentally derived model, modal assurance criterion, mass and stiffness error matrices.
Structural modifications.
Operational deflection shapes. Application of experimental modal analysis in technical diagnostics,
Operational modal analysis, multiple-input multiple-output analysis.

Povinná literatura

1. BILOŠOVÁ, A.: Modal Testing. Dostupný z https://www.fs.vsb.cz/export/sites/fs/330/.content/files/EMA_skriptaEN.pdf

2.EWINS, D.J.: Modal Testing: Theory, Practice and Application, second
edition, Research Studies Press, Ltd., England 2000

Doporučená literatura

ZAVERI, K. Modal Analysis of Large Structures - Multiple Exciter Systems,
Denmark 1985, ISBN 87 87355 03 5