Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the velocity sensed by a single laser vibrometer beam incident in an arbitrary direction on a target that is of substantial interest in engineering - a rotating shaft requiring three translational and three rotational co-ordinates to describe its vibra...

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Main Authors: John R. Bell, Steve Rothberg
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spelling rr-article-95681542000-01-01T00:00:00Z Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure? John R. Bell (7203395) Steve Rothberg (1247499) Mechanical engineering not elsewhere classified untagged Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the velocity sensed by a single laser vibrometer beam incident in an arbitrary direction on a target that is of substantial interest in engineering - a rotating shaft requiring three translational and three rotational co-ordinates to describe its vibratory motion fully. Six separate "vibration sets", each a combination of motion parameters, appear in the full expression for vibration velocity sensitivity and it is shown not to be possible to resolve individual motion components within each set by arrangement, or even manipulation, of laser beams. To place this non-contact transducer velocity sensitivity model in its proper context, the velocity sensitivity of a contacting transducer under identical conditions is also derived and comparison is made between non-contacting and contacting transducer performance. Specific applications of the laser vibrometer theory to radial and axial vibration measurements are set out and it is shown how estimation of radial vibration components is only possible by post-processing, The theory is easily extended to include measurements made with multiple beams, underlining the model's versatility in enabling determination of the vibration component sensitivity of a measurement with any beam orientation or combination of beam orientations. This will prove beneficial in devising further optical configurations for the measurement of torsional, pitch and yaw vibrations. 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/9663 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Laser_vibrometers_and_contacting_transducers_target_rotation_and_six_degree-of-freedom_vibration_what_do_we_really_measure_/9568154 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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John R. Bell
Steve Rothberg
Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
description This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the velocity sensed by a single laser vibrometer beam incident in an arbitrary direction on a target that is of substantial interest in engineering - a rotating shaft requiring three translational and three rotational co-ordinates to describe its vibratory motion fully. Six separate "vibration sets", each a combination of motion parameters, appear in the full expression for vibration velocity sensitivity and it is shown not to be possible to resolve individual motion components within each set by arrangement, or even manipulation, of laser beams. To place this non-contact transducer velocity sensitivity model in its proper context, the velocity sensitivity of a contacting transducer under identical conditions is also derived and comparison is made between non-contacting and contacting transducer performance. Specific applications of the laser vibrometer theory to radial and axial vibration measurements are set out and it is shown how estimation of radial vibration components is only possible by post-processing, The theory is easily extended to include measurements made with multiple beams, underlining the model's versatility in enabling determination of the vibration component sensitivity of a measurement with any beam orientation or combination of beam orientations. This will prove beneficial in devising further optical configurations for the measurement of torsional, pitch and yaw vibrations.
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author John R. Bell
Steve Rothberg
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Steve Rothberg
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title Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
title_short Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
title_full Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
title_fullStr Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
title_full_unstemmed Laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
title_sort laser vibrometers and contacting transducers, target rotation and six degree-of-freedom vibration: what do we really measure?
publishDate 2000
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/9663
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