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12 Getting Started Using Adams/Vibration

Overview

Overview
In this section, you start with a full nonlinear Adams model and add input channels, output channels, and
vibration actuators to the model.
Completing this section involves the following:
Starting Adams/View and Importing the Model
Loading Adams/Vibration
Simulating the Satellite Model
Creating Input Channels
Creating Output Channels

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Starting Adams/View and Importing the Model

Starting Adams/View and Importing the Model

In this section, you learn how to start Adams/Vibration from within Adams/View.
In the UNIX environment, you start Adams/View from the Adams Toolbar and then, from within
Adams/View, you load the Adams/Vibration plugin.
In the Windows environment, you start Adams/View from the Start menu, and then load the
Adams/Vibration plugin.
For information on starting Adams, see the Running and Configuring online help.
To start Adams and import your model:
1. Create a working directory, and copy the contents of
install_dir/vibration/examples/tutorial_satellite to that directory (where
install_dir is the directory where Adams/Vibration is installed).
Note:

On Windows, you may need to set the permissions to Full Control to edit the tutorial files.

2. Do either of the following depending on the platform on which you are running Adams/View:
In UNIX, type the command to start the Adams Toolbar at the command prompt, and then

press Enter. Select the Adams/View tool

In Windows, from the Start menu, point to Programs, point to MSC.Software, point to MD

Adams 2010, point to AView, and then select Adams - View.

The Welcome dialog box appears, in the Adams/View main window.
3. Select Import a File.
4. Select the Find Directory tool
dialog box.
Note:

next to the Start in text box. This displays the Find Directory

The Start in text box specifies the working directory that Adams/Vibration uses as the
default directory for reading and writing files.

5. Navigate to the working directory that you created in step 1.

6. Select OK.
This ensures that all your work gets stored in the working directory you selected.
7. Select OK.
The File Import dialog box appears.
8. Right-click the File to Read text box, and select Browse.
9. Select the file satellite.cmd.
10. Select OK.
Adams/View opens the satellite model and displays it, as shown in Figure 3.

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Starting Adams/View and Importing the Model

Figure 3

Satellite

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Loading Adams/Vibration

Loading Adams/Vibration
Because Adams/Vibration is a plugin to Adams/Car, and Adams/View, you need to load
Adams/Vibration when you use Adams/Vibration from within any of these products. If youre creating a
new model, or importing a model that has no Adams/Vibration data associated with it, you will need to
load the Adams/Vibration plugin. If, however, youre importing a model that already has
Adams/Vibration data, the plugin automatically loads when you open the model.
To load Adams/Vibration:
1. From the Tools menu, select Plugin Manager.
2. Select the Load checkbox next to Adams/Vibration.
3. Select OK.
Adams/View loads the Adams/Vibration plugin and displays the Vibration menu. If you receive
an error message, you might have a problem with your licensing. Contact your system
administrator or local Adams expert.
Remember, you only need to load Adams/Vibration when working with a new model. Once you
have an Adams/Vibration model, you do not have to load the product. It automatically loads when
you import your file.
To automatically load Adams/Vibration each time Adams/View starts up, in the Plugin
Manager, select the Load at Startup checkbox.

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Simulating the Satellite Model

Simulating the Satellite Model

Here you simulate the model to verify that it works as expected. Before you simulate the model, you turn
off gravity. The simulation shows the deployment of the solar panels in space.
To simulate the motion of your model:
1. To turn off gravity, from the Settings menu, select Gravity.
The Gravity Settings dialog box appears.
2. If not already cleared, clear the selection of Gravity.
3. Select OK.
4. From the Main Toolbox, select the Simulation tool

5. Set up a simulation with a duration of 15 seconds and 500 output steps.

6. Select the Simulation Start tool

The model simulates the deployment of the solar panels, and then remains in simulate mode.
7. To return to the initial model configuration, select the Reset tool

8. To turn on gravity, from the Settings menu, select Gravity.

The Gravity Settings dialog box appears.
9. Select Gravity.
10. Select the -Y button

The Y text box displays -9806.65, the earths normal gravity.

11. Select OK.
The model is now returned to the correct launch configuration for the vibration analysis.

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Creating Input Channels

Creating Input Channels

Here you create two input channels at the center of the payload adapter (in the global x and y directions)
and create vibration actuators for them.
Input channels provide ports into your system that you can use to:
Plot the frequency response.
Drive (vibrate) your system using a vibration actuator.

A vibration actuator applies force input or a displacement, velocity, or acceleration to vibrate the system.
A typical design specification may call for an input acceleration level of 0.2 g2/Hz when applied as a
PSD. For this problem, we will use an equivalent force input normalized to a value of 1, since we are only
interested in the relative accelerations at various frequencies.
You will create two vibration actuators that apply two orthogonal input forces that drive the system with
sine waves over the range of specified frequencies. The y input will drive the satellite in the vertical
direction. The x input will drive the satellite laterally.
Then, you will create a third actuator that applies a 1g vertical acceleration in the y-direction.
Finally, you will review the vibration actuator.
To create input channels and vibration actuators:
1. From the Vibration menu, point to Build, point to Input Channel, and then select New.
The Create/Modify Vibration Input Channel dialog box appears.
2. In the Input Channel Name text box, enter .satellite.input_x.
3. Leave the default Force.
4. Right-click the Input Marker text box, point to Marker, and then select Browse.
The Database Navigator appears.
5. Double-click payload_adapter.reference_point.
Adams/Vibration inserts this marker into the Input Marker text box.
6. Select Translational.
7. Set the Force Direction to Global X.
8. Select Actuator Parameters.
9. Select Swept Sine.
10. In the Force Magnitude text box, enter 1.
11. In the Phase Angle (deg) text box, enter 0.
12. Select Apply.
Adams/Vibration creates the input channel and vibration actuator, and leaves the dialog box open
so you can create the second input channel and vibration actuator.

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Creating Input Channels

13. To create another input channel, in the Input Channel Name text box, enter .satellite.input_y.
14. Leave the default Force.
15. In the Input Marker text box, leave payload_adapter.reference_point.
16. Set Force Direction to Global Y.
17. Select Swept Sine.
18. In the Force Magnitude text box, enter 1.
19. In the Phase Angle (deg) text box, enter 0.
20. Select OK.
Adams/Vibration creates another input channel and vibration actuator.
To create a kinematic input channel and vibration actuator:
1. From the Vibration menu, point to Build, point to Input Channel, and then select New.
The Create/Modify Vibration Input Channel dialog box appears.
2. In the Input Channel Name text box, enter .satellite.input_accel_y.
3. Set Force to Kinematic.
4. Right-click the Input Marker text box, point to Marker, and then select Browse.
The Database Navigator appears.
5. Double-click payload_adapter.reference_point.
Adams/Vibration inserts this marker into the Input Marker text box.
6. Select Global.
7. Select Translational.
8. Select Acceleration and Y.
9. Select Swept Sine.
10. In Magnitude text box, enter 9806.65.
11. In the Phase Angle (deg) text box, enter 0.
12. Select OK.
Adams/Vibration creates another input channel and vibration actuator.
To review the vibration actuator:
1. From the Vibration menu, point to Build, point to Input Channel, and then select Modify.
The Database Navigator appears.
2. Double-click the model name to display the list of input channels.
3. Double-click .satellite.input_accel_y.
The Create/Modify Vibration Input Channel dialog box appears.
4. Select Plot Actuator to open the Actuator Preview Plot dialog box.

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Creating Input Channels

5. Specify the following:

Begin: 0.1
End: 100
Steps: 1000
6. Leave all other default settings.
7. Select Generate Plot to plot the actuator.
8. Close the Actuator Preview Plot dialog box.
9. In the Modify Vibration Input Channel dialog box, select OK.

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Creating Output Channels

Creating Output Channels

Here you create output channels. Output channels are output ports at which you examine the frequency
response of the system. You can think of output channels as instrumentation ports where you can measure
system response and report the results directly in the frequency domain.
To create output channels:
1. From the Vibration menu, point to Build, point to Output Channel, and then select New.
The Create/Modify Vibration Output Channel dialog box appears.
2. In the Output Channel Name text box, enter: .satellite.p1_center_x_dis.
3. Set Output Function Type to Predefined.
4. Right-click the Output Marker text box, point to Marker, and then select Browse.
The Database Navigator appears.
5. Double-click .satellite.panel_1.center.
Adams/Vibration inserts the marker panel_1.center into the Output Marker text box.
6. Set Global Component to Displacement along X.
7. Select Apply.
Adams/Vibration creates an output channel.
8. Using the specifications in the following table, create the remaining output channels, selecting
Apply after creating each channel, and selecting OK after you create the last output channel.

Output Channel Name:

Output Marker:

Disp/vel/acc:

Direction:

.satellite.p2_center_x_dis

.satellite.panel_2.center

Displacement

.satellite.p1_corner_x_dis

.satellite.panel_1.corner

Displacement

.satellite.p1_corner_x_vel

.satellite.panel_1.corner

Velocity

.satellite.p1_corner_x_acc

.satellite.panel_1.corner

Acceleration

.satellite.p1_corner_y_acc

.satellite.panel_1.corner

Acceleration

.satellite.p1_corner_z_acc

.satellite.panel_1.corner

Acceleration

.satellite.ref_x_acc

.satellite.payload_adapter.cm

Acceleration

.satellite.ref_y_acc

.satellite.payload_adapter.cm

Acceleration

.satellite.ref_z_acc

.satellite.payload_adapter.cm

Acceleration