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Vibration Analysis: High-Speed Stereo DIC on a Helicopter Blade
Case Description
A helicopter blade was vibrated by a shaker with a sine sweep signal and imaged via two iX Cameras next generation i-SPEED® 727 ultra high-speed video cameras. For benchmark purposes, accelerometers were simultaneously attached and Simcenter SCADAS system was invoked to impose perfect synchronization between the accelerometers and the recorded images.
An optimized DIC analysis was obtained using MatchID Stereo Correlation. Frequency response functions (FRF) could then seamlessly be extracted via a direct integration between Simcenter Testlab and MatchID. Finally, the corresponding operational deflection shapes were determined. An excellent agreement between traditional sensor data and DIC results could be retrieved.
EXPERIMENT SETUP
Cameras: 2 iX Cameras i-SPEED 727, 8,512 fps @ 2072 x 1536 resolution
Validation: Accelerometers & Simcenter SCADAS
Acquisition Speed: 1,600 Hz
ANALYSIS
Type: Stereo DIC with optimized settings
Vibration: Modal parameters identified with Simcenter Polymax
Mode Shapes: Deflection shape determination with MatchID ODS Module
RESULTS
Stereo DIC: Time resolved displacements results
Natural frequencies: structural resonances & damping
Operational Deflection Shapes: 3D deformation at the identified natural frequencies
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Keywords: MatchID, iX Cameras, i-SPEED 727, Siemens, high-speed vibration analysis, DIC, high-speed imaging