Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
A tracking filter that includes an output that is logarithmically proportional to the amplitude of the filtered signal is used to measure the damping exponent of a transient decay. This method is analogous to the digital technique referred to as the moving-block or peak-plot method. The method is simple to use and quite accurate, avoids the numerical computations associated with similar digital techniques, but is constrained by the poor time-domain response characteristics of commercial tracking filters presently available.
Keywords:
INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Type:
NASA-TM-X-73121
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A-6535
Format:
application/pdf