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In 2020 we have a series of webinars about ARTeMIS Modal. All webinars are free of charge and only require that you register before start. They typically last for one hour and covers a specific topic. Next up is Operational Modal Analysis using ARTeMIS.
We have released ARTeMIS Modal version 6.1.0.8. This version has many enhancements that will be presented below. If you like a free trial of ARTeMIS Modal please go to www.svibs.com/Download. If you already is a customer please log into your account at portal.svibs.com.
In this version the processing speed has been optimized in different ways. By default, the mathematical processing can use more computational threads. In addition, on computers with enough memory some operations that before were made in steps now complete in a single step. It is therefore highly recommended to have at least 16 GB of memory available. Specifically, the improvements can be experienced in the following parts of ARTeMIS Modal:
The two damage detection techniques in ARTeMIS Modal has been made more flexible. First, it is no longer needed to use same settings for the two methods. Secondly, the detection has now been divided into three steps. These are:
For projects used for continuous health monitoring, the two first steps must be completed before the damage detection can be put in an automatic detection mode. Please watch our webinar about Structural Health Monitoring on May 6, where this will be demonstrated.
The Analysis History Task of ARTeMIS Modal Pro. Modal Parameter History, Classic Damage Detection and Interstorey Drift Analysis. The SHM plugins will be presented on the Structural Health Monitoring webinar on May 6, 2020
We have just released version 7.0 of ARTeMIS Modal. If you are already an active user of ARTeMIS Modal, please go ahead and download the installer and license file from portal.svibs.com. If you would like to test the software, please feel free to download a 30 days trial license from svibs.com/download/.
The signal processing and automatic modal analysis has been optimized by centralizing both the computations and their management directly in the computational engine. This has simplified the communication between user interface and computation engine, and has resulted in increased performance and stability.
We have simplified the data acquisition task for Operational Modal Analysis measurements. There is now an “Idle” button next to the “Start” and “Stop” buttons. The dialogs for setting up the actual recording has also been made more logical. We have added support for HBM QuantumX hardware, both for Operational Modal Analysis and Experimental Modal Analysis.
New user-interface for the Data Acquisition Task for Operational Modal Analysis.
New user-interface for the Data Acquisition Task for Experimental Modal Analysis (Impact Testing).
The plugins for Structural Health Monitoring have also been updated in this release. We have optimized the data access causing both Damage Detection and Interstorey Drift Analysis to work much faster than previously.
New user-interface for the Data Acquisition Task for Experimental Modal Analysis (Impact Testing).
The automatic export in the Analysis History windows have been centralized, and now, besides exporting all modes and tracked modes, it is also possible to export damage indicators, control chart values and relative drift values. It is now possible to just save a reference to the measurement files, and as such not load them into the Analysis Session AMPS files. This significantly decreases the size of these files.
Additional options have been added in the Analysis Sessions window for easy editing of multiple sessions. The options are Delete, Disable, Detach. Additional columns for listing the Classic and Robust damage indicators and control chart values with colored background can also be added now.
Analysis History Task with Modal Parameter History overlaid with Damage Detection and Interstorey Drift Analysis. New extended layout of the Analysis Sessions Window. Now with visualization of the damage indicator and control chart values.
The Automatic File Upload Task has been simplified and is now only available from a menu item in the status bar of ARTeMIS Modal.
The Automatic File Upload Task controlled from the
status bar.
In the SVS Configuration File used for initialization of an ARTeMIS Modal project, it is now possible to explicitly select projection channels. In the Setups section, just add the option /XPC after the channel label. In addition, if the channel data needs to be calibration by multiplication of a factor, then just add the option
/Calib:XXX after the channel label, where XXX is the calibration factor.
The Setups section of an SVS Configuration File with new /XPC and /Calib options added.
In ARTeMIS Modal 6.0, we have updated frequency domain Operating Deflection Shapes task. The shapes are now estimated using Phased Assigned Spectra’s allowing read-out of Peak, Peak-to-Peak, RMS and Power values at all measured DOF’s. User is free to select units and measurement type (displacements, velocities, accelerations). Please have a look at the video at www.svibs.com/ODS.
We have now added a series of videos showing how to perform multi-setup testing using ARTeMIS Modal. Please have a look at the videos at www.svibs.com/HowTo.
The next annual user training course will take place in Aalborg, Denmark on October 29-30, 2019.
This 2-day course is for the new as well as experienced users that would like to be updated on Operational Modal Analysis and Experimental Modal Analysis as well as the latest features of ARTeMIS Modal software.
The course will be held at Comwell Hotel Hvide Hus in Aalborg, Denmark. Both days we start at 9.00 and end at 17.00. There will be lunch and coffee breaks during the day and free WiFi internet access. The course instructor is Dr. Palle Andersen, CEO at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S.
More information is available at www.svibs.com/News.
September 30 – October 1, 2019, Ingolstadt, Germany.
This 2-day course will give a general insight to the theory and practice of Experimental Modal Analysis. The similarities and differences between Operational Modal Analysis and Classical Modal Analysis will be the main focus. There will be practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises during the course. The social event is a visit to the Munich Octoberfest.
More information is available at www.svibs.com/News.
ARTeMIS Modal 6.0 has now been released and includes many new features and enhancements. Existing users should log in at www.svibs.com and download the latest build 6.0.0.2. If you are not already a user and wish to try it out, please go to the Download section to get a 30 days trial version.
ARTeMIS Modal 6.0 has many new exciting features. Some of these are
Please have a look at this YouTube video that introduces some of these new features:
Figure 1: ARTeMIS Modal 6.0 – New features and layout.
From the release of version 6.0, mode shape uncertainties can now be estimated in the SSI-UPCX modal estimator. All modal parameters and their uncertainties can, as such now be estimated, presented and exported to third party software.
Figure 2: Uncertainties of global modes estimated using SSI-UPCX estimator. Natural frequencies and damping ratios and their confidence bounds can be visualized in the Frequency vs. Damping diagram. Mode shape uncertainties are presented in the Complexity diagram where the real/imaginary confidence bound is presented for each DOF. Mode shape animations also includes an option to visualize the uncertainties. In the mode list all modal parameters, including the mode shape complexity, are accompanied by the estimated standard deviations.
In all the estimators that uses a stabilization diagram, it is now possible to view the modal alignments for the individual global modes. The modal alignments display the natural frequency, damping ratio and mode shape complexity respectively as a function of the state space model dimension.
Figure 3: The top view depicts the modal alignments for the global mode selected below. The natural frequency, damping ratio and mode shape complexity development over increasing model dimensions are displayed along with estimated standard deviations (SSI-UPCX only).
If you are interested in Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA), with or without Direct Hardware Control, we are running a special limited offer, on all versions of ARTeMIS Modal.
Buying a license of any version of ARTeMIS Modal bundled with the EMA plugin and optionally a Direct Hardware Control plugin, can be done at a very affordable bundle price.
Please contact sales@svibs.com for more information or a quotation.
We will be demonstrating all the new exciting features of ARTeMIS Modal 6.0 at the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC) in Orlando, Florida on January 28-31, in booth #213. We are also present at the International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC) in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 13-15, 2019.
The next user training course will take place in Aalborg, Denmark on October 29-30, 2019.
This 2-day course is for the new as well as experienced users that would like to be updated on Operational Modal Analysis and Experimental Modal Analysis as well as the latest features of ARTeMIS Modal software.
The course will be held at Comwell Hotel Hvide Hus in Aalborg, Denmark. Both days we start at 9.00 and end at 17.00. There will be lunch and coffee breaks during the day and free WiFi internet access. The course instructor is Dr. Palle Andersen, CEO at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S.
In ARTeMIS Modal 6.0, planned for a release in the second quarter of 2018, we are introducing a new module for Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA). The new module will support both hammer and shaker tests that deploy Frequency Response Functions (FRFs) obtained in one of the following ways:
Below a preview of this new module can be seen.
The experimental tests presented here has been conducted at TH Ingolstadt, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Germany under the guidance of Professor J. Bienert, who is gratefully acknowledged.
The experimental campaign consist of impact (hammer) testing of an Audi TT car body, see a picture depicted below.
The car body was mounted free on four air cushions. Four references respectively impact points were excited with 14 accelerometers as responses. The data acquisition and processing of the FRF’s were made with a 24-channel data acquisition system. The FRF’s were stored in the four separate Universal File Format Files (Audi_TT_FRF_runX.unv) along with a test geometry in its own file (Audi_TT.unv).
Importing the FRF’s into ARTeMIS Modal starts with creating a new project using Universal File Format, which is illustrated in the picture below.
Once the files are uploaded, the geometry and FRF’s can be seen in the simplified Prepare Data task. The Data Organizer contains all four impact tests listed below each other, and the Geometry window visualize the positions and the directions of the response and reference channels. All the impact positions can be viewed by selecting the first item, All Test Setup, in the Data Organizer, illustrated below.
The 14 response accelerometers are seen in blue, and the impact positions, indicated by a hammer symbol, are colored green.
The modal parameters of the car body are computed with a Rational Fraction Polynomial estimator working in Z-domain. This estimator has been developed in cooperation with Politecnico di Torino, Dynamics and Identification Research Group (DIRG) at Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Italy, the I4S Team at Inria, France and Aalborg University, Department of Civil Engineering, Denmark.
The estimator has been adapted, so it is operated in nearly the same way as the Stochastic Subspace Identification methods used for Operational Modal Analysis in ARTeMIS Modal.
The work flow is as follows:
The figure below illustrates the analysis of the experimental test of the Audi TT in the frequency range from around 4 Hz up to 140 Hz. Maximum model order was set to 80, however only models up to 60 were estimated.
The modes obtained from the RFP-Z estimator are validated using the standard tools available in ARTeMIS Modal. By selecting the Validation Task, the modes can be compared with the other estimators as well as imported results from any other modal analysis tools. Below we are comparing the RFP-Z modes with the modes obtained with a simple peak-picking tool already available in ARTeMIS Modal. It is based on the peak picking on the Complex Mode Indicator Function (CMIF).
If you are interested in helping us with testing the new EMA module, please contact us at info@svibs.com.
We will be presenting the new RFP-Z estimator at the International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XXXVI) on February 12-15, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. See you in booth 213!
The next user training course will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 7-8, 2018.
This 2-day course is for the new as well as experienced users that would like to be updated on Operational Modal Analysis technology as well as the latest features of ARTeMIS Operational Modal Analysis software.
The course will be held on May 7-8, 2018 at Hotel SANA Rex in Lisbon, Portugal. Both days we start at 9.30 and end at 17.00 on the first day and at 16.00 on the second. There will be lunch and coffee breaks during the day and free WiFi internet access. The course instructor is Dr. Palle Andersen, CEO at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S.
On day 1, you will get a comprehensive introduction to Operational Modal Analysis technology in general. During this introduction, the differences to the well-known input/output modal analysis will be described. Also the procedures for acquiring high quality measurements will be discussed in detail. We will help each other acquiring good measurements of different demo structures. The introduction is followed by a presentation of the user-friendly Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) technique, and we will analyze the acquired measurements as hands-on exercises. Finally, the two other FDD related techniques of ARTeMIS (Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition and Curve-fit Frequency Domain Decomposition) are introduced, and we will continue with hands-on exercises using these techniques.
On day 2, you will be introduced to Stochastic Subspace Identification (SSI) and the latest features available in ARTeMIS such as the ARTeMIS Modal Pro Plugins for SHM.
You will get course material as well as a 1-month free demo version of the ARTeMIS Modal Pro which we invite you to install on your own laptop for use during the hands-on exercises of the course.
Attending the course will cost 750 EUR per person. Students get 50% discount.
Please download the registration form and send it by email to Structural Vibration Solutions at mo@svibs.com. We need your registration no later than March 1, 2018.
We have now released a new plugin for Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) that works with all versions of ARTMIS Modal (Basic, Standard, Pro). The plugin opens for frequency domain estimation of modal parameters from Frequency Response Functions (FRF’s) using either Complex Mode Indicator Function (CMIF) – Peak Picking or Rational Fraction Polynomial in Z domain (RFP-Z).
The FRF’s can either be imported through Universal File Format from third party solutions, see a worked example here, or by using the new Impact Testing module, see a worked example here.
The Impact Testing module is available if valid plugin licenses for a data acquisition system and Experimental Modal Analysis are present on the computer.
We will be presenting the new RFP-Z estimator and Impact Testing Module at ISMA conference on September 17-19, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium. See you in booth 14!
The next user training course will take place in Aalborg, Denmark on November 6-7, 2018.
This 2-day course is for the new as well as experienced users that would like to be updated on Operational Modal Analysis and Experimental Modal Analysis as well as the latest features of ARTeMIS Modal software.
The course will be held on November 6-7, 2018 at Comwell Hotel Hvide Hus in Aalborg, Denmark. Both days we start at 9.00 and end at 17.00. There will be lunch and coffee breaks during the day and free WiFi internet access. The course instructors are Dr. Palle Andersen, CEO at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S and Mr. Ilija Trenchevski, senior developer of ARTeMIS Modal at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S.
On day 1, you will get a comprehensive introduction to Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) and Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) in general. During this introduction, the differences and similarities between EMA and OMA will be described. Also the procedures for acquiring high quality measurements will be discussed in details. We will help each other acquiring good measurements of different demo structures both for EMA and OMA applications. The introduction is followed by a presentation of the user-friendly Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) technique, and we will analyze the acquired measurements as hands-on exercises. Finally, the two other FDD related techniques of ARTeMIS (Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition and Curve-fit Frequency Domain Decomposition) are introduced, and we will continue with hands-on exercises using these techniques. The technical programme will end with the analysis of the acquired EMA data using the Complex Mode Indicator Function – Peak Picking method (CMIF).
We end day 1 at a restaurant in the old downtown of Aalborg.
On day 2, you will be introduced to the advanced OMA methods called Stochastic Subspace Identification (SSI) as well as the parametric EMA method called Rational Fraction Polynomial in Z-domain (RFP-Z) and the latest features available in ARTeMIS such as the Structural Health Monitoring plugins.
You will get course material as well as a 1-month free demo version of the ARTeMIS Modal Pro which we invite you to install on your own laptop for use during the hands-on exercises of the course.
Attending the course will cost 950 EUR per person. Students get 50% discount. Book before August 31, 2018 and SAVE 10%!
Prices includes 25% Danish VAT (moms).
Please download the registration form and send it by email to Structural Vibration Solutions at mo@svibs.com. We need your registration no later than October 1, 2018.
ARTeMIS Modal 5.2 has now been released and includes many new features and enhancements. Existing users should log in at www.svibs.com and download the latest build 5.2.1.1. If you are not already a user and wish to try it out, please go to the Download section to get a 30 days trial version.
ARTeMIS Modal Pro 5.2 features a new tool for the reduction of undesired peaks from the structural response spectra. The tool can be used to reduce the influence of e.g. harmonic peaks originating from some rotating parts acting on the structure during a test. Likewise, it can be deployed to remove undesired modes. This particular application is beneficial in case of very strong modes being mixed with weak modes. In order to better estimate the weak modes the strong ones can simply be removed from the response data before conducting the modal analysis.
It integrates seamlessly with the automatic Harmonic Detection tool, that detects the harmonic peaks using a Kurtosis check on bandpass filtered time response. Read more >
We have released a new web site that better supports desktop as well as mobile platforms. Please have a look at www.svibs.com
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Customers can log into their accounts when using a desktop platform.
The next user training course will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 7-8, 2018.
This 2-day course is for the new as well as experienced users that would like to be updated on Operational Modal Analysis technology as well as the latest features of ARTeMIS Operational Modal Analysis software.
The course will be held on May 7-8, 2018 at Hotel SANA Rex in Lisbon, Portugal. Both days we start at 9.30 and end at 17.00 on the first day and at 16.00 on the second. There will be lunch and coffee breaks during the day and free WiFi internet access. The course instructor is Dr. Palle Andersen, CEO at Structural Vibration Solutions A/S.
On day 1, you will get a comprehensive introduction to Operational Modal Analysis technology in general. During this introduction, the differences to the well-known input/output modal analysis will be described. Also the procedures for acquiring high quality measurements will be discussed in detail. We will help each other acquiring good measurements of different demo structures. The introduction is followed by a presentation of the user-friendly Frequency Domain Decomposition (FDD) technique, and we will analyze the acquired measurements as hands-on exercises. Finally, the two other FDD related techniques of ARTeMIS (Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition and Curve-fit Frequency Domain Decomposition) are introduced, and we will continue with hands-on exercises using these techniques.
On day 2, you will be introduced to Stochastic Subspace Identification (SSI) and the latest features available in ARTeMIS such as the ARTeMIS Modal Pro Plugins for SHM.
You will get course material as well as a 1-month free demo version of the ARTeMIS Modal Pro which we invite you to install on your own laptop for use during the hands-on exercises of the course.
Attending the course will cost 750 EUR per person. Students get 50% discount.
Please download the registration form and send it by email to Structural Vibration Solutions at mo@svibs.com. We need your registration no later than March 1, 2018.
