Experimental Identification of Mechanical Joint Parameters

The dynamic behavior of a mechanical system generally are strongly affected by the properties of mechanical joints. An identification method which directly used the measured frequency response functions (FRFs) to identify the joint properties was introduced in this work. Because the measurement noise in the frequency response functions is unavoidable in practice and may lead to very faulty results, the proposed method has been developed especially to overcome this problem. The accuracy and feasibility of the proposed method were verified and demonstrated by theoretical simulation and experiments. The results show that the joint properties can be identified accurately from the FRFs even with noise effect.