Abstract
This paper deals with some aliasing effects in the time domain that can lead to unacceptable misestimations of modal parameters. When a frequency response function of a vibrating system is sampled and inverse Fourier transformed, the resulting impulse response is given by an infinite geometric series, the single term of which is the impulse response itself shifted in time. For this reason, some modal parameters, if estimated in the time domain, are biased; in particular, while the damping factor and the natural frequency are not influenced by the aliasing phenomenon, the magnitude and phase of the residue can be highly biased. Corrective terms are theoretically evaluated and their efficiency is shown in numerical simulations.
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In questo articolo e' presentato un metodo per correggere gli errori che si compiono nella stima di alcuni parametri modali, quando essi vengono ricavati nel dominio del tempo. Infatti se la funzione di risposta in frequenza e' ottenuta con eccitazioni particolari—quali ad esempio lo pseudo-random, lo stepped-sine a passo costante o lo sweep in frequenza-la risposta impulsiva, ottenuta per mezzo dell'antitrasformata discreta di Fourier, risulta periodica, con periodo pari all'inverso della spaziatura tra le righe spettrali. Cio' comporta un errore nella stima dell'ampiezza e della fase del residuo, mentre nessuna conseguenza si ha sulla frequenza naturale e sul fattore di smorzamento. L'errore sulle stime risulta tanto piu' grande, quanto meno smorzata e' la risposta impulsiva all'interno dell'intervallo di osservazione.
Partendo dall'inviluppo e dalla fase istantanea dei segnali complessi, ottenibili per mezzo della trasformata di Hilbert, si sono ricavati i termini correttivi sia per il modulo, che per la fase del residuo. La validita' delle correzioni e' mostrata con esempi numerici.
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Agneni, A. Bias in modal parameters due to aliasing in the time domain. Meccanica 26, 221–228 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430939
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