Extension of continuous scanning laser Doppler vibrometry measurement for complex structures with curved surfaces

The continuous Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry (SLDV) developed on the base of the galvanometer scanner system has made it possible to quickly obtain the full field vibration responses within a rectangular area of the structure. In this paper, an arbitrary continuous scanning path generating method for Continuous Scanning Laser Doppler Vibometry (CSLDV) is further put forward in order to allow the CSLDV suitable for testing structures featured by complex shapes not just for regular areas. In the first step, the relationship between position of laser spot and the driving voltages of galvanometer scanner system has been described by a mathematical modeling. Then, a novel arbitrary scanning path generating strategy based on CSLDV is presented by deforming a normalization rectangular scanning path to an arbitrary continuous scanning path. The mapping relation between the normalization rectangular scanning path and arbitrary continuous scanning path is established using the reference points. In the second step, a compressor blade with curved surface was taken as an example for modal test using the proposed method. At the same time, a validated experiment was performed in SLDV. The results show the mode shapes derived from the extended CSLDV are in agreement with those from SLDV and the Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) between the two are all greater than 0.96. They also demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method for CSLDV test and show strong potential on further practical engineering applications.