Identificação modal de uma estrutura aeronáutica via algoritmo de realização de sistemas / Modal identification of an aeronautical structure via the eigensystem realization algorithm

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

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The determination of the dynamic characteristics of aircraft structures has become an extremely important issue in the aerospace industry, primarily due to the continuous demand for lighter and consequently more flexible structures. In this context, most aerospace structural system must be subjected to some form of modal verification prior to flight in order to ensure that the aircraft is free from any dangerous aeroelastic instability phenomena. The verification procedure often includes the experimental identification of structural characteristics such as the natural frequency, damping factors and normal modes using modal testing. In this work, a ground vibration testing (GVT) of a metallic wing of the Neiva Regente aircraft was accomplished in order to assess the frequency response functions. The basic identification method used for this study is the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm – ERA. It is an identification method, which is considered efficient and powerful, because it is capable to identify structures that present complex dynamic behaviour. The algorithm was valited through data obtained from a simulation of a hypothetical model and dynamic measurement accomplished in an aluminium beam. The experimental results, nevertheless, present computacional modes that must be removed from the model. Three confidence factors were used to qualify the results, namely the Modal Phase Collinearity – Weighted (MPCW), Extended Modal Amplitude Coherence (EMAC) and Consistent-Mode Indicator (CMI). The modes that presented higher confidence factor values were considered as the final result of the identification process. Then, the identificatin process was applied to a semi-wing of the Neiva Regente aircraft. This case has revealed a much harder identification procedure, where the complexity of the structure plus noisy data have led to a small number of identified modes

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era ensaios de vibração structural dynamics aeroelasticidade gvt aeroelasticity dinâmica estrutural era

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