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- From: merbe02@vmsa.technion.ac.il
- Subject: Re: Nonlinear spring design and analysis
- Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:52:14 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Oct9.135214.1@vmsa.technion.ac.il>
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- In article <1av6f5INNjms@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>
- davidt@ecst.csuchico.edu (David Taylor) writes
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- >I am having some problems modeling a nonlinear spring
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- For non-linear spring analysis I could recommend you a new technique. Here
- it is the abstract of the paper submitted to XI Intern. Modal Analysis
- Conf. (Session 24: Non-Linear Structures)
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- ANALYSIS OF TYPICAL NON-LINEAR VIBRATION SYSTEMS BY USING
- THE HILBERT TRANSFORM
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- Michael Feldman, Simon Braun
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology
- Haifa, 32000, Israel
-
- Every typical non-linearity in spring (hard or soft spring,
- backlash, pretensioned (preloaded) system, bi-linear system, impact system
- etc.) has its unique form of skeleton curve (backbone). Suggested
- analysis of the topography of the skeleton curve is essential for
- evaluation of the properties of the particular vibrating system, e.g.
- through reconstruction of any characteristics of the elastic forces.
- If a system to be tested has non-linear damping characteristics the
- instantaneous damping parameters are also functions of its envelope and
- instantaneous frequency. These dependencies allow estimation of a type
- and a value of different kinds of damping: dry friction, structural,
- viscous ones, etc. Technique of a non-linear system investigation based
- on the Hilbert transform enables us to identify the system
- instantaneous modal parameters (undamped natural frequencies, damping
- characteristics and their dependence on vibration amplitude and
- frequency) during both the free vibration and various kinds of
- excitation of the dynamic system. Direct time domain techniques allow
- direct extraction of linear and non-linear systems parameters from a
- measured time signal of input and output. The proposed method of force
- vibration analysis determines instantaneous modal parameters even if an
- input signal is a high sweep frequency quasi-harmonic signal or a random
- signal.
-