Singular value decomposition

Feb). The more advanced methods overcoming drawbacks of the PP method when the modes are spaced closely are frequency domain decomposition method (FDD) (Brincker R, Zhang L, Andersen P (2001) Modal identification of output-only systems using frequency domain decomposition. Smart Mat Struct 10:441–445) or complex mode indication function method (CMIF) (Shih CY, Tsuei YG, Allemang RJ, Brown DL (1988) Complex mode indication function and its applications to spatial domain parameter estimation. Mech Syst Signal Process 2(4):367–377). The methods compute the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the spectral density matrix: [G_YY (ω)]=[U][Ʃ] [U]^H where [U] is the unitary matrix holding singular vectors, [U]^H is Hermitian adjacent of the matrix [U], [Ʃ] is the matrix of singular values in descending order. The first singular value contains the information about the dominant mode at the considered frequency. The number of nonzero elements in [Ʃ] equals the rank of the spectral density matrix therefore the closely spaced modes may be identified. Moreover, the number of dominant singular values at a certain frequency equals the number of modes that give a significant contribution to the structural response at that particular frequency. The damping ratios also may be estimated through enhanced version of this method known as Enhanced Frequency Domain Decomposition (EFFD) (Brincker et al. 2001, Gade et al. 2005). In this method the damping evaluated in time domain by use the…

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acid-base reaction. Heat is also detected in all of the reaction signifying it is conducting some sort of energy or electricity. Therefore, reactions nine, eleven, twelve, and fourteen are all acid-base chemical reactions because of the chemical properties that they share. Reactions eight and fifteen were all discovered to be decomposition reactions because of their physical observations. A chemical decomposition reaction is a reaction in which a compound, the reactant, is broken down into…

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