This is an Independent study to explore Modal Updating of FE models using Test data.

FE models like 3D Beam and 8 noded Brick elements were coded in MATLAB and validated with Ansys Apdl.

Testing was done in a laboratory environment using an open source experimental modal analysis software called "OpenModal" which had been validated with existing Bobcat commercial software.

The project is systematically explained in the Python jupyter notebook.

WFEM : by Dr. Joseph Slater

OpenModal : created as an Opensource software written in Python for Vibration Testing with excellent capabilities.

vibrationtesting : by Dr. Joseph Slater

Vibration Toolbox : by Dr. Joseph Slater

Finite Element Model Updating in Structural Dynamics by M.I. Friswell and J.E. Mottershead

Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, Fourth edition by Robert D. Cook, David S. Malkus, Michael E. Plesha and Robert J. Witt

Siemens Corp. MAC