Nonlinear System Identification with Applications to Durability Testing of Ground Vehicle Components
| dc.contributor.author | Doranga, Sushil | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Telichev, Igor (Mechanical Engineering) Polyzois, Dimos (Civil Engineering) Zu, Jean W. (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Wu, Christine (Mechanical Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-13T19:25:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-13T19:25:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-03 | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Mechanical Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Presently in ground vehicle industries, conducting durability tests is an essential step to predict the life of full vehicle, subsystem and component designs. The procedure of durability testing includes measuring the data in the test track, generating the accelerated loading profiles and implementing it by using the base excited shaker table. The problem associated with the implementation is the output loading profiles measured from the shaker table deviates from the desired input loading profiles. The engineering problem associated with the implementation is due to the unknown dynamics of the test structure, such as, nonlinear stiffness and damping. A new approach for the nonlinear system identification of continuous lightly damped system from the experimental data is presented. The new approach is based on the theory of force reconstruction, base excitation and nonlinear system identification. The methodology is verified by using the simulation example and is demonstrated by using the cantilever beam as an example. An experimental setup is designed, fabricated and installed in order to demonstrate the proposed methodology. The experimental setup is similar to that of industrial settings but with lower power range. Several experimental case studies are carried out to demonstrate the proposed methodology. The results from the experiments are the identification of viscous damping coefficient dependent upon the displacement amplitudes and the cubic stiffness nonlinearity. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2015 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Doranga, Sushil, and Christine Q. Wu. "Parameter Identification for Nonlinear Dynamic Systems via Multilinear Least Square Estimation." Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 169-182. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Doranga, S., and C. Q. Wu. "Development and Performance Analysis of Single Axis Simulation Table for Durability Testing." Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 4. Springer International Publishing, 2014. 227-234. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/30439 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | springer | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Durability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Testing | en_US |
| dc.title | Nonlinear System Identification with Applications to Durability Testing of Ground Vehicle Components | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |