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Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) techniques provide in most cases reasonably accurate estimates of structural frequencies and mode shapes. In contrast though, they are known to often produce uncertain structural damping estimates, which is mainly due to inherent random and/or bias errors. In this paper a comparison is made of the effectiveness of two existing OMA techniques in providing accurate damping estimates for random stationary loading, varying levels of signal noise, number of added measurement channels and level of structural damping. The investigation is focusing on the two frequency domain techniques, the Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) and the Frequency Domain Polyreference (FDPR). The response of a two degree-of-freedom (2DOF) system is numerically established with specified modal parameters subjected to white noise loading. The system identification is evaluated with well separated and closely spaced modes. Finally, the results of the numerical study are presented, in which the error of the structural damping estimates obtained by each OMA technique is shown for a range of damping levels. From this, it is clear that there are notable differences in accuracy between the different techniques.
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Bajrić, A., Georgakis, C.T., Brincker, R. (2015). Evaluation of Damping Using Frequency Domain Operational Modal Analysis Techniques. In: Caicedo, J., Pakzad, S. (eds) Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15248-6_37
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