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Cosmos2006 Modal Analysis Elastic Connectors

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skin85

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Mar 30, 2008
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Hi all,

I'm attempting to verify some findings, in cosmos advanced professional, from a hammer test i have performed.

The experiment is looking at the mode shapes of a brake rotor. For the hammer experiment the disc was suspended on bungees, four in total(through the hubs). Each with a spring stiffness, k, of 6N/m.

I impacted the structure at 23 discrete locations and after performing some analysis and observing FRFs concluded that there were four dominant modes within a frequency range of 0-6000Hz. These modes occured at:

mode 1 1073Hz
mode 2 2430Hz
mode 3 3967Hz
mode 4 5555Hz

I'm now trying to replicate these environmental conditions in the software, but with no prior expeirience I'm having difficulty.
I have created an accurate SW model of the disc, assigned the correct material (grey iron) and used default mesh properties.
The restraint I used for the initial anaysis was "Elastic Connector", I applied this constraint to the hub surface and gave the properties "normal stiffness 24N/m total" and "shear stiffness 0N/m".
After running analysis on all modes within the specified 0-6000Hz frequency range the software returns 39 resonant frequencies (the first 6 are zero Hz). This is surely incorrect?
Any help on how I can improve the accuracy of the software boundary conditions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
 
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