Smoothing identification of systems with small non-linearities

Abstract

This paper deals with simplified mathematical models of the dynamic systems with weak non-linearities and described by complex continuous transfer functions without jumping. We consider only the first approximation of the steady state forced vibration where the complex amplitude corresponds to the same frequency as the harmonic excitation. The iterative smoothing of the above system from the measured transfer function at discrete frequency points and especially from their moduli is proposed. The aim of this method is to determine the complex eigenvalues of the systems with Duffing-type stiffness behaviour (only their imaginary parts depend on the squares of the absolute values of the amplitudes) and real modal parameters in situations when no-phase difference between output and input is known. If the complex transfer function is completely known, the identified complex eigenvalues are assumed to be linear and quadratic functions of absolute values of amplitudes and the modal parameters are complex.