An extended version of a reduced order model called the Fundamental
Mistuning Model (FMM) accurately predicts vibratory response and damping
in a bladed disk system. The extended FMM software may describe the
normal modes and natural frequencies of a mistuned bladed disk as well as
damping in the disk using complex-valued inputs of its tuned system
frequencies and the frequency mistuning of each blade/disk sector (i.e.,
the sector frequencies). The extended FMM system identification
methods--basic and advanced extended FMM ID methods--also use complex
mistuned modes and complex frequencies of the mistuned bladed disk as
inputs. As a result, in extended FMM ID calculations, the tuned system
frequencies and the mistuning frequency ratios are complex numbers. The
real parts of frequencies relate to sector frequencies as well as tuned
system frequencies. However, the imaginary part can be related to system
damping. Thus, extended FMM ID methodology may be used to identify not
only the frequencies of the individual sectors of the bladed disk, but
also to identify damping in the bladed disk system. The extended FMM may
predict how much the bladed disk will vibrate under the operating
(rotating) conditions. Field calibration and testing of the blades may be
performed using traveling wave analysis and extended FMM ID methods. The
extended FMM model can be generated completely from experimental data.
Because of extended FMM's simplicity, no special interfaces are required
for extended FMM to be compatible with a finite element model. Because of
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