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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Identification of physical parameters of biological and mechanical systems under whole-body vibration

Qiao, Guandong 15 December 2017 (has links)
The identification of the physical parameters (mass, stiffness, and damping) of structural, mechanical, and biomechanical systems is a major challenge in many applications, especially when dealing with old systems and biological systems with heavy damping and where environmental noises are presented. This work presents a novel methodology called eigenvector phase correction (EVPHC) to solve for the physical parameters of structural and biomechanical systems even with the existence of a significant amount of noise. The method was first tested on structural/mechanical systems and showed superior results when compared with an iterative method from the literature. EVPHC was then developed and used to identify the physical parameters of supine humans under vertical whole-body vibration. Modal parameters of fifteen human subjects, in the supine position, were first identified in this work using experimentation under vertical whole-body vibration. EVPHC was then used to solve an inverse modal problem for the identification of the stiffness and damping parameters at the cervical and lumbar areas of supine humans. The results showed that the resulting physical parameters were realistically close to those presented in the literature. The proposed human model was able to predict the time histories of the acceleration at the head, chest, pelvis, and legs very closely to those of the experimental measured values. A scaling methodology is also presented in this work, where an average human model was scaled to an individual subject using the body mass properties.

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