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Vibration measurement and analysis has been an accepted method since decades to meet a number of objectives - machinery condition monitoring, dynamic qualification of any designed structural components, prediction of faults and structural aging-related problems, and several other structural dynamics studies and diagnosis. However, the requirement of the vibration measurement at number of locations in structures, machines and/or equipments makes the vibration measurement exorbitant if conventional piezoelectric accelerometers are used. Hence, there is a need for cheaper and reliable alternative for the conventional accelerometers. The Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) accelerometers are one such cheap alternative. However, a significant deviation in the performance of the MEMS accelerometers has been observed in earlier research studies and also confirmed by this presented study when compared with well known conventional accelerometer. Therefore, two methods have been suggested to improve the performance of the existing MEMS accelerometers; one for correction in time domain and other in frequency domain. Both methods are based on the generation of a characteristic function (CF) for the MEMS accelerometer using well known reference accelerometer in laboratory tests. The procedures of both methods have been discussed and validations of these methods have been presented through experimental examples. In addition, a Finite Element (FE) model of a typical MEMS accelerometer has been developed and modal analysis has been carried out to understand the dynamics of capacitive type MEMS accelerometer and to identify the source of errors. It has been observed that the moving fingers behave like a cantilever beam while the fixed fingers showed rigid body motion. This cantilever type of motion seems to be causing non-parallel plates effect in the formed capacitors between moving and fixed fingers which results in errors in the vibration measurement. Hence, design modifications on finger shape have been suggested to remove the cantilever motion and results showed remarkable improvement. Moreover, the effect of using synchronous amplitude modulation and demodulation in the readout circuit has been studied. The experimental study showed that this circuit also introduces errors in amplitude and phase of the output signal compared with the input signal. Thus, in the new design of MEMS accelerometers, improvements in both mechanical design and electronic circuit are required.

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Vibrations are very common phenomenon. It influences structures and generates acoustic noise which might be harmful to human beings. The vibration isolator was invented to reduce the effect from vibrations. However, the behavior of rubber material, which many vibration isolators are made of, is hard to predict. Consequently, vibration tests are needed to obtain the dynamic properties of rubber isolator.In this case, a six-year old LORD 2204-5 rubber isolator provided by Atlas Copco was tested. The aim of this paper is to obtain the FRF (Frequency Response Function) diagram which can describe the property of the rubber material. Moreover, the influence of aging of rubber material on the dynamic properties was studied.As the vibration test should simulate the working environment of the isolators that are both a static load from the structure and a dynamic force from the engine, a new excitation method was designed. The camshaft with the shape of an epitrochoid induced the sinusoidal signal of the isolator and the frame transferred the static load from the hydraulic machine. The artificial aging was performed in a hot air oven in 90°C for 42 hours, which according to Arrhenius equation should be equivalent to six years of natural aging. The vibration isolator was tested again after being aged.The obtained data showed that the aging process decreased the stiffness of the material. The results were corresponding with other studies regarding aging of rubber.

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Bolted joints are integral parts of mechanical systems, and bolt preload loss is one of the major failure modes for bolted joint structures. Understanding the damping and frequency response to a varying preload in a single-bolted lap-joint structure can be very helpful in predicting and analyzing more complicated structures connected by these joints. In this thesis, the relationship between the bolt preload and the natural frequency, and the relationship between the bolt preload and the structural damping, have both been investigated through impact hammer testing on a single-bolted lap-joint structure. The test data revealed that the bolt preload has nonlinear effects on the structural damping and on the natural frequency of the structure. The damping ratios of the test structure were determined to increase with decreasing preload. An increase in structural damping is beneficial in most engineering circumstances, for it will reduce the vibrational response and noise subjected to external excitations. It was also observed that the modal frequency increased with increasing preload, but remained approximately constant for preload larger than 30% in the bolt yield strength. One application for studying the preload effect is the detection for loose bolts in structures. The possibility of using impact testing for estimating preload loss has been confirmed, and the modal damping was determined to be a more sensitive indicator than the natural frequency in a single-bolted lap-joint structure.

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The application of robotic manipulators in machining systems has gained a great interest in manufacturing because of their lower prices, higher kinematic flexibility and larger workspace compared to conventional CNC machine tools. However, their performance is limited due to the much lower structural rigidity which makes them more susceptible to excessive and unstable vibrations, known as chatter, during the machining process. Highly effective chatter modeling and avoidance methods that have been developed for CNC machining in the past decades are now being used by the industry to design high-performance chatter-free machining operations. The available methods, however, face major difficulties when applied to robotic machining, mainly due to the high flexibility and pose-dependency of the vibration response in robots. High flexibility leads to high-amplitude vibrations which affect the process dynamics and excite structural nonlinearities. The existing approaches to modeling machining vibrations assume linearity of the structural dynamics of the robotic manipulator. This assumption, considering the inherent nonlinearities in the robot’s revolute joints, may cause considerable inaccuracies in predicting the stability of vibrations during the process. This thesis studies the high flexibility and nonlinearity of the robot’s structural dynamics and their effects on chatter vibrations. The research starts with investigating the effects of high flexibility of robot's structure in the process dyamics by considering the modulation of cutting forces by axial vibrations, which is normally ignored in CNC milling due to high rigidity of the machine in this direction. The results of chatter prediction considering this effect are shown and discussed. The rest of the thesis focuses on the structural nonlinearity. Firstly, an experimental study is presented to investigate the extent of nonlinearity in structural dynamics of the robot. The results confirm that structural nonlinearities in robotic machining systems can be effectively excited in the presence of high-amplitude vibrations due to milling forces, such that they cause remarkable differences in chatter prediction. The following step is modeling the structural nonlinearities. For this purpose, the variation of restoring forces with the dynamic response (displacement and velocity) are observed when the robot is subjected to harmonic excitation. Based on the experimental observations, the nonlinear effects are modeled by cubic stiffness and damping characteristics. Parameters of the nonlinear model are then identified using Higher-order Frequency Response Functions (HFRF) extracted from measurements. The identified model can predict the vibration behavior of the robotic machining system when subjected to periodic loads such as milling forces. The developed model of nonlinear structural dynamics is then coupled with the chatter model. Consequently, the system is described by nonlinear Delay Differential Equations (DDE) with periodic coefficients. Bifurcation diagrams for the forced vibrations in the described system are developed using the numerical continuation method. The effects of cutting parameters such as feedrate as well as the nonlinear parameters are studied. The thesis is concluded by proposing the use of in-process FRF in the linear model of chatter stability for quick prediction of stability limits. In this approach, the exact characteristics of the nonlinear mechanisms are not studied; instead, the measured FRF during the milling process are used, which are assumed to represent the nonlinear structural dynamics that are linearized about the applied operational conditions. Two methods of measuring in-process FRF are proposed and employed in the robotic milling system. The measured FRF are then used in the linear chatter model to develop the Stability Lobes Diagram (SLD) which shows the combination of cutting parameters that lead to stable or unstable vibrations. Experimental chatter tests show that better agreement with predictions can be achieved by using in-process FRF instead of FRF measured at the idle state of the system. The results of this thesis contribute to better characterization of vibrations in robotic machining with high-amplitude forces and selecting suitable strategies to enhance productivity of the operation. / Graduate

Bilindustrin är i ständig utveckling och är väl medvetna om de ökande kraven från kundermed avseende på körkomfort och körupplevelse. Lastbilar med tunga laster är ofta utrustademed en påbyggnad, till exempel en låda för pallar och gods, en sopsamlare eller en stödram förbärning av timmer. SCANIA Bodybuilding Center utvecklar riktlinjer för val av olika typer avkarosseri, dvs typ av stödram och antal , fästpunkter. Målet med detta arbete är att utvecklaen bättre förståelse för hur det stödjande ramverket och dess infästningar i en lastbil påverkarrammens dynamik och sedan föreslå förbättringar till dessa riktlinjer.Viktiga parametrar som påverkar chassisdynamiken identifierades och beskrivs från början.Fysisk vibrationstestning av chassiet och påbyggnadsram med fasthållningsfäste utfördes vidi testrigg på Scania R&D. Frekvensresponsfunktionerna från mätningarna användes för attbestämma modala parametrar. Olika test utfördes genom att ändra parametrarna och upptagningenav mätningarna. Testresultaten användes för att studera egenfrekvenser egna frekvenser,modifieringsformer och dämpning i systemet. Även en ny metod för att bygga en dynamiskfinit element (FE) modell eller chassi och påbyggnadsram är presenterad i denna undersökning.Modalanalys av chassi-påbygnadsramssystemet gjordes för att studera FEMs egna frekvenseroch modeformer. Den föreslagna metoden för koppling av chassit och delramen i FEM är kritisktbedömd genom att korrelera FE-simuleringen med de experimentella resultaten. Baserat på deutförda experimenten och den numeriska simuleringen föreslås från experiment och numerisksimulering, föreslås nya rekommendationer med avseende på påbyggnadsanslutningarnas konfigurationi lastbil. / The automotive sector is continuously evolving and the companies are well aware of therising demands from customers with regard to driving comfort and experience. Trucks carryingheavy loads are often equipped with on-built bodywork, for example a box for pallets and goods, agarbage collector device or a supporting frame for carrying timber. SCANIA bodybuilding centredevelops guidelines for selecting different types of bodywork, i.e. the type of supporting frame,design and number of attachment brackets, attachment points. The purpose of this master thesisis to develop a better understanding of how the supporting frame and its attachments in a truckinfluence the chassis frame dynamics and to propose improvements to these guidelines.Major parameters influencing the chassis dynamics were identified and described from theoutset. Physical vibration testing of the chassis-subframe assembly was carried out at roadsimulator. The frequency response functions from the measurements were used to determinethe modal parameters. Several tests were performed by altering the parameters and recordingthe measurements. The results from the test cases were used to study and analyse the eigenfrequencies, mode shapes and damping in the system. Also, a new method to build a dynamicfinite element (FE) model of chassis and subframe is presented in this study. Modal analysisof the chassis-subframe assembly was done to study the eigen frequencies and mode shapes byFEM. The proposed method of coupling the chassis and the subframe is critically assessed bycorrelating the results from FE simulation with the experimental results. Based on the resultsfrom experiment and numerical simulation, new recommendations are proposed with regard tothe bodywork attachments’ configuration in the truck.

An experimental and analytical investigation was conducted to gain insight and ultimately predict the dynamic flow response of a fan rotor with inlet flow distortion. Rotor exit total pressure circumferential profiles were accurately predicted using frequency response functions derived from experimental rotor response data. Using these predicted profiles, an initial attempt was made at predicting the dynamic (distorted) stage characteristics of the test machine with promising results. The first step of this research was an experimental investigation to gather unsteady rotor response data. The steady three-dimensional inlet flow of an isolated rotor subjected to inlet distortion was obtained using a five-hole pneumatic prism probe. Exit flow dynamic wake data were obtained using a piggyback steady/unsteady total pressure probe in non-nulling mode. Inlet and exit data were collected for eighteen different combinations of distortion level, operating point, and measurement span. Frequency response functions were generated and then averaged for each operating regime, span, and distortion intensity, assuming the data to be stationary and ergodic. These 'generalized' FRF's were used to predict the rotor exit total pressure profile. These pressure profiles were then used in an initial attempt to predict the dynamic stage (distorted) characteristics of the test machine. Best predictions resulted when an FRF was used for individual operating regimes, defined with respect to rotor blade mean aerodynamic loading. / Master of Science