Fundamental frequency is not the maximum peak
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Hi. I have a signal with high sampling rate (500MHz). Our fundamental frequency of our transducer is 20kHz which is seen as a peak, but it is not the maximum peak. Why is that? Is it wrong? Isn't the fundamental (driving) frequency supposed to be the max(abs(fft))?
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Star Strider
on 25 Apr 2020
As always, my pleasure!
1. The eigenmodes can be bigger than the driving frequency, if the driving frequency is sufficientlyfar from the eigenmodes of the structure you’re studying, and the amplitude of the driving signal is powerful enough to excite them. If the driving frequency was equal to one of the eigenmodes, it could (at least theoretically) destroy the system you’re studying.
2. I wouldn’t say the second result is ‘wrong’, only that you’ll need to investigate the reason the two transducers are giving such disparate results.
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Star Strider
on 23 Apr 2020
My pleasure.
I’m not certain what your experimental setup is, and whether the ‘transducer’ is a sensor or exciter, since it can be either.
The system you are studying is likely nonlinear, at least to the extent of modulating the excitation signal. If you give it a broadband stimulus (such as an impulse), its response will favor its own eigenmodes. (For example, consider striking a bell.) The resonant frequency of the sensor is apparently broadband enough to pick up the resonant frequency of the transducer as well as the eigenmodes of the system you’re studying. You likely want the eigenmodes.
Assuming that the system and the system setup remains unchanged, the different sensors likely have different dynamics. One may be acting as a bandpass filter (so it emphasizes its own dynamics) and the other (perhaps the one that produced the spectrum in the plot image) has more broadband characteristics. (Editorially, I would use the sensor less likely to emphasize its own dynamics and more likely to have a generally uniform broadband response.)
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Star Strider
on 23 Apr 2020
1. Likely the best way to characterise the system is to excite it with a broadband impulse, then use broadband reccording. That will be most likely way to produce the data you need to characterise the system.
2. You probably do not, and I am not certain excatly how to test that.
I am not certain what you are doing or what your objective is. Testing the system with a specific driving frequency will produce the response at the driving frequency. Exciting the system with a broadband (impulse) signal will produce the eigenmodes of the system.
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