Method for dynamic load location identification based on FRF decomposition

The location identification of dynamic load is an important part of load-identification technology. Traditional methods are mostly aimed at the identification of dynamic load’s amplitude and phase. A new method for dynamic load location identification is proposed in this paper. An amplitude ratio or a phase difference between structural dynamic response signals is only related to the frequency response function (FRF), which is a complex-valued function that implies the location information of the load to be identified. In this method, the amplitude and phase variables of the excitation can be eliminated with symbolic calculations, and the location variables can be extracted from the FRF in a complex-number field. An excitation location can be identified quickly with parameter optimization using a Genetic Algorithm (GA), avoiding the ill-posed problem caused by matrix inversion. Numerical simulations and experiments demonstrate that this method can realize the fast recognition of several excitation positions, and has a high recognition accuracy, a short calculation time and a strong anti-noise ability.