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This paper continues the investigation from a paper presented at IMAC XXXIII that looked into the influence of various experimental setups on the nonlinear measurements of structures with mechanical joints. The previous study reported how the system stiffness and damping was affected by the force input method, boundary conditions and measurement techniques. However, during the stepped sine excitation experiments the parameters for the control schemes were neglected. In this paper, different control strategies, namely force and acceleration control, are used to observe how the parameters affect the measurements at different levels of excitation. The experiments are conducted on bolted beams containing a lap joint with different boundary conditions. The beams are excited by a shaker using a stepped sine signal using narrow bandwidths around three of the natural frequencies. The results show that acceleration amplitude control can produce cleaner transfer functions compared to the force amplitude control method.
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This work was funded by Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000. The authors would like to thank Dr. Matthew Allen from the University of Wisconsin- Madison for his input during the tests
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Catalfamo, S. et al. (2016). Effects of Experimental Methods on the Measurements of a Nonlinear Structure. In: Allen, M., Mayes, R., Rixen, D. (eds) Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29763-7_48
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