Abstract

From the viewpoint of vibration control, if the amplitude of the main frequencies of the vibration response can be reduced, the vibration energy of the structure is greatly reduced. Modal parameters, including modal shapes, natural frequencies, and damping ratios, can reflect the dynamics of the structure and can be used to control the vibration. This paper integrates the idea of “forgetting factor weighting” into eigenvector recursive principal component analysis, and then proposes an operational modal analysis (OMA) method that uses eigenvector recursive PCA with a forgetting factor (ERPCAWF). The proposed method can identify the transient natural frequencies and transient modal shapes online and realtime using only nonstationary vibration response signals. The identified modal parameters are also suitable for online, real-time health monitoring and fault diagnosis. Finally, the modal identification results from a three-degree-of-freedom weakly damped linear time-varying structure shows that the ERPCAWF-based OMA method can effectively identify transient modal parameters online using only nonstationary response signals. The results also show that the ERPCAWF-based approach is faster, requires less memory space, and achieves higher identification accuracy and greater stability than autocorrelation matrix recursive PCA with a forgetting factor-based OMA.

Highlights

  • During the production and use of a structure, vibration is inevitable

  • The scope of application of the proposed eigenvector recursive Principal component analysis (PCA) with a forgetting factor (ERPCAWF)-based operational modal analysis (OMA) for linear time-varying (LTV) structures is as follows: (1) For real modal analysis in the modal coordinates, the vibration response signals of weakly damped mechanical structures can be decomposed into the inner product of the modal shapes matrix and modal responses matrix

  • (1) For the LTV three-DOF system considered in the simulations, Figure 7 clearly shows that different forgetting factors have an effect on the recognition of the modal shape for ERPCAWF-based

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Summary

Introduction

During the production and use of a structure, vibration is inevitable. Vibration can cause damages to the structure and endanger human health [1]. Guan et al [36] developed an ARPCA with a forgetting factor (ARPCAWF) for OMA, and identified transient modal parameters for a beam with time-varying density by updating the autocorrelation matrix online This method is suitable for both SLTV and fast linear time-varying (FLTV) structures, but suffers from pathological matrix problems and modal exchange, and has high computation times and memory requirements. Integrating the idea of “forgetting factor weighting” and the technology of ERPCA, we propose an ERPCAWF-based OMA method to identify the transient natural frequencies and transient modal shapes of LTV structures using only nonstationary response signals under unmeasured stationary ambient loads This method is suitable for both SLTV and FLTV structures.

Dynamics of N-DOF LTV Structures
Modal Coordinate Decomposition of Vibration Response in N-DOF LTV Structures
PCA-Based OMA Method for Vibration Control
PCAWF- and ARPCAWF-Based OMA Methods and Their Limitations
Theory of PCAWF
Theory of ARPCAWF
PCAWF-Based OMA for LTV Structures
ARPCAWF-Based OMA for LTV Structures
Limitations of PCAWF and ARPCAWF-Based OMA for LTV Structures
ERPCAWF-Based OMA Method for LTV Structures
Theory of ERPCAWF
ERPCAWF-Based OMA for LTV Structures
Performance Analysis of ERPCAWF-Based OMA and Its Advantages
Limitations and Application Scope of ERPCAWF-Based OMA for LTV Structures
Description of LTV Three-DOF System
Theoretical Mode Solution
Modal Assurance Criterion
LTV Three-DOF Simulation Results
Analysis of Modal Identification Results
Conclusions and Prospects

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