Experimental validation of a nonlinear model calibration method based on multiharmonic frequency responses
Journal article, 2017

Correlation and calibration using test data are natural ingredients in the process of validating computational models. Model calibration for the important subclass of nonlinear systems which consists of structures dominated by linear behavior with the presence of local nonlinear effects is studied in this work. The experimental validation of a nonlinear model calibration method is conducted using a replica of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL) nonlinear benchmark test setup. The calibration method is based on the selection of uncertain model parameters and the data that form the calibration metric together with an efficient optimization routine. The parameterization is chosen so that the expected covariances of the parameter estimates are made small. To obtain informative data, the excitation force is designed to be multisinusoidal and the resulting steady-state multiharmonic frequency response data are measured. To shorten the optimization time, plausible starting seed candidates are selected using the Latin hypercube sampling method. The candidate parameter set giving the smallest deviation to the test data is used as a starting point for an iterative search for a calibration solution. The model calibration is conducted by minimizing the deviations between the measured steady-state multiharmonic frequency response data and the analytical counterparts that are calculated using the multiharmonic balance method. The resulting calibrated model's output corresponds well with the measured responses. Copyright © 2017 by ASME.

multiharmonic frequency response

Nonlinear model calibration

Fisher information matrix

identifiability analysis

Author

Yousheng Chen

Linnaeus University, Växjö

Andreas Linderholt

Linnaeus University, Växjö

Thomas Abrahamsson

Swedish Wind Power Technology Center (SWPTC)

Dynamics

Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics

15551415 (ISSN) 15551423 (eISSN)

Vol. 12 4 Article number 410141- 410141

Subject Categories

Mechanical Engineering

Energy Engineering

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Energy

DOI

10.1115/1.4035670

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