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Vibration testing is now a mature and widely used tool in the analysis of structural systems. It would be impossible and undesirable to review all the aspects of experimental technique in this chapter. A summary is presented which should be sufficient to enable the reader to appreciate the sources of errors in measured vibration data. The quality of this data is vitally important if the satisfactory updating of a finite element model is to be achieved. Although some errors in the data are inevitable they should be minimised by good experimental technique. Ewins (1984) gives a good introduction to modal testing. Allemang et al. (1987), Zaveri (1984) and Snoeys et al. (1987) gave more detail on aspects of vibration testing.
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Friswell, M.I., Mottershead, J.E. (1995). Vibration Testing. In: Finite Element Model Updating in Structural Dynamics. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8508-8_3
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