Frequency Response Characteristics of Bender Element Test System Identified by Frequency-Swept Signal Input —Influence on Accuracy of Received Waveform Reconstruction—

Abstract

On the basis of the method for received waveform reconstruction that the authors had previously proposed on bender element test, this paper discusses the required characteristics of frequency response of the test system and frequency-swept signal, which are essential for the method, from the view point of reconstruction accuracy. In order to argue in‰uence on characteristics of frequency response, frequency responses of several bender element test systems are experimentally identiˆed by using eleven kinds of frequency-swept signals. Test results show that the frequency response of the system is substantially determined by the kinds of sample and identiˆcation of frequency response is aŠected by characteristics of input frequency-swept signal. Then reconstructed received waveform is calculated and compared to observed waveform. A normalized cross-correlation function is proposed to estimate quantitatively the degree of similarity between two waveforms and applied to the reconstructed and observed waveforms. This comparative analysis reveals that accurate identiˆcation of frequency response in a given frequency range leads to accurate waveform reconstruction. Also, test results show an additional advantage of this reconstruction technique in a noisy environment.