Ps. Bookout, STATISTICALLY GENERATED WEIGHTED CURVE FIT OF RESIDUAL FUNCTIONS FOR MODAL-ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES, Shock and vibration, 4(4), 1997, pp. 211-222
A statistically generated weighting function for a second-order polyno
mial curve fit of residual functions has been developed. The residual
flexibility test method, from which a residual function is generated,
is a procedure to modal test large structures in a free-free environme
nt to measure the effects of higher order modes and stiffness at disti
nct degree of freedom interfaces. Due to the present damping estimate
limitations in the modal parameter evaluation (natural frequencies and
mode shapes) of test data, the residual function has regions of irreg
ular data, which should be a smooth curve in a second-order polynomial
form. A weighting function of the data is generated by examining the
variances between neighboring data points. From a weighted second-orde
r polynomial curve fit, an accurate residual flexibility value call be
obtained. The residual flexibility value and free-free modes from tes
ting are used to improve a mathematical model of the structure, which
is used to predict constrained mode shapes.