Acoustics Tutorials

Function Filter on Data Sources Tutorial

Objective:
The goal of this tutorial is to explain the use of the Function Filter on the Data sources of a function set to eliminate unwanted functions, and keep only useful or needed functions for the analysis.

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Prerequisites:
Software Configurations and Options that are needed to run the tutorial: Configuration: Desktop

Tutorial Data Files:

LMS CADA-X project 'AR' (5 files: AR.idx, AR.mtx, ar.ix0, ar.ix1, ar.dat) [All data files can be found on the Windows-DVD, on LMSGETTSTDataVAM-Tutorial-DataMODSubframe. For ease of use, it is best to copy all files to a local folder.]

Step-by-Step Tutorial:
Step 1 of 4: Import Transfer Functions from CADA-X We will first import the transfer functions from the CADA-X project. 1. Start LMS Virtual.Lab, select: Start Noise & Vibration System Analysis from the main menu bar. Transfer Function Set. The Transfer Function Set

A new document will be created. 2. Select Insert Function Sets Definition dialog will appear.

3. Keep the default settings and click the OK button. This will insert a Transfer Function Set.1 feature in the Specification Tree. 4. Expand the Transfer Function Set.1 feature in the Specification Tree, and right click on the Data sources feature and select Add a Data File from the contextual menu. Open a Data Source window will open. 5. Select the file type LMS CADA-X Project (*.idx). Browse for the folder where the CADA-X project, ar can be found. Select the file AR.idx.

6. Click the Open button. The File Data Source window will appear. 7. Keep all tests in the Selected Subcases/Tests in the list. Check the Create Input and Output Points in this dialog box.

8. Click the OK button. The transfer functions and the IO Points are added under the Transfer Function Set.1. Step 2 of 4: Investigate the Transfer Function Set In this step we will find out which transfer functions are available in the Data Sources. 1. Double-click the Transfer Function Set.1 feature in the Specification Tree. The Transfer function Set Definition window opens.

2. For this exercise, we are not interested in the Velocity/Force transfer functions. Select Velocity under the Output Physical Types. Click the Remove button under the Output Physical Types. This removes Velocity from the Output Physical Types field. Click the OK button. This will remove the corresponding IO Points Set from under the function set. 3. Expand the Transfer Function Set.1 in the Specification Tree, and right click the Data sources LMS CADA-X Project AR.idx feature and select List Functions from the contextual menu. This will open the List of Functions in Database dialog which shows a list of all 252 transfer functions in the file. Other functions than transfer functions (like loads or coherence functions) will not be shown because the file is attached to a Transfer Function Set.

4. Click the Close button. 5. Right-click on the Transfer Function Set.1 feature and select Check Transfer Function Set Status from the contextual menu. 632 functions are shown as missing.

6. Click the Close button. 7. Right-click the Transfer Function Set.1 feature and click New Function Display from the contextual menu. The New Function Display dialog will appear.

8. Select Check transfer Function Set Status and click the Finish button. The graph window opens. 9. For each of the different Output Physical types, you can have an overview of the available and missing transfer functions for all relevant IO Points. Right-click on the graph select Views Top from the contextual menu. 10. The top view is shown as follows:

11. Close the graph. Step 3 of 4: Define the Function Filter In this step, we will use the capability of Add Function Filter so that we keep only the following transfer functions:

The one of type Acceleration/force

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For input/excitation points on the "bar" component Of test section "Impact01"

1. Right-click the Data Sources feature and select Add Function Filterfrom the contextual menu. This opens the dialog box for Function Filter. The title window frame shows that we start with 252 functions:

2. First filter out the transfer functions that are not Acceleration / force. For this select the other ones, and move them to the rejected list. Set the Matching fields as follows:

3. Click the Apply Matching button. Then click the

button.

4. Now keep only the FRFs for excitation points on component bar. Set the Matching fields as follows:

5. Click the Apply Matching button. This selects the functions that we want to keep, not reject. 6. Now click the Invert Selection button. Then push the button.

7. The manual operation of inverting the selection has broken the associativity, as indicated in the window title frame (see Add Function Filter for more details):

8. But for this exercise, we want to keep the associativity. Click the Undo button. 9. Use the negative logic so that the associativity is not broken. Select any one of the two possibilities given below:

OR 10. Click the Apply Matching button. Then click the button.

11. Inspect the list of 57 Kept records. You will see that there are only two FRFs for excitation point bar:20: +X, at the bottom of the list. You can select these manually with the mouse to reject them, but this would again break the associativity. You can use one of the following settings to select them:

OR 12. Click the Apply Matching button. Then click the 13. Close the Function Filter dialog box. Step 4 of 4: Check the Transfer Function Set

OR button. This will keep 55 functions.

In this step we will check the transfer functions that are available, now that we have applied the filter on the functions. 1. Double click the Check Transfer Function Set Status Matrix Display feature. The graph window opens. Note: this feature is not changed by the function filter operations, since it still checks the availability of functions for all of the IO Points in the Transfer Function Set. These IO Points have not changed by applying the Function Filter. 2. Close the graph. 3. Right-click on the Transfer Function Set.1 feature and select Regenerate IO Points from the contextual menu. The Feature Selection dialog will appear.

4. Check Remove Existing Points and Create Input and Output Points in the intermediate dialog box.

If you don't get this intermediate dialog box, go to Tools

Options, section General, tab Data Source, and

un-check:

5. Click the OK button. 6. Again double-click the Check Transfer Function Set Status Matrix Display feature. 7. Right-click on the graph and select Select Data. This will now show that no functions are missing.

If the function filter stays associative (check the window title frame to be sure), then the same filtering operation will be applied even when the source file is updated. In the above example: if the CADA-X user moves transfer functions from one test section to another, or adds transfer functions for another excitation point (e.g. "acc:24:+Z"), the Transfer Function Set will still expose the same 55 functions. 8. Right-click Input points [Force] and select Create Single IOPoint New IOPoint from the contextual menu. The Single Node IOPoint Definition dialog will appear. 9. Fill in the details as shown below:

10. Double-click the Function Filter feature. The Function Filter dialog will still show that 55 functions are kept.

11. Close the graph. This ends the tutorial on using a function filter on a function set. Note: More complex filter operations are possible. You can also use Wildcards to define such complex filter operations (see Add Function Filter for more details). A few examples are given below.
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To match only response points 5 through 12 on component bar:

To not match half orders (in loads):