A comprehensive modal survey test based on multi-input multi-output experimental modal analysis techniques was conducted on the CASSIOPE spacecraft. This paper describes the details of the methodology used to perform the successful experimental modal test to efficiently extract the critical modes of the spacecraft. Results from the modal test have been used to validate the analytical finite element model and to provide confidence in the structural integrity of the spacecraft design. The test was performed on the flight model of the CASSIOPE spacecraft in the final stages of integration, which included all of the payload and bus instruments and electronics boxes. The multiple-input excitation for the spacecraft was generated using two portable electrodynamic modal shakers installed on the top and bottom of the spacecraft to distribute the excitation energy and the response was measured using 81 miniature accelerometers. A digital multi-channel data acquisition system was used to record the time domain data and calculate the frequency domain spectra. Advanced modal analysis software was used to extract modal parameters from the measured data and critical modes were compared with predictions from the finite element model. Most modes identified through the experimental data compared favorably with the predictions. Nevertheless, some differences were large enough to require iterative update of the finite elelement model. The structural dynamics information from the updated finite element model was used to plan the mechanical vibration qualification test and predict the response of the spacecraft to the launch vehicle environmental loads through coupled loads analysis.


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    Titel :

    Modal Survey Test and Model Correlation of the CASSIOPE Spacecraft


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Conf.Proceedings of Society


    Beteiligte:
    Proulx, Tom (Herausgeber:in) / Wickramasinghe, Viresh (Autor:in) / Chen, Yong (Autor:in) / Zimcik, David (Autor:in) / Tremblay, Phillippe (Autor:in) / Dahl, Harold (Autor:in) / Walkty, Ian (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    12.05.2011


    Format / Umfang :

    9 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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