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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2023
Rdi Technologies, Inc., Knoxville, TN (US);
Kenneth Ralph Piety, Knoxville, TN (US);
Jeffrey R. Hay, Prospect, KY (US);
Mark William Slemp, Tellico Plains, TN (US);
RDI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Knoxville, TN (US);
Abstract
A method for non-contact modal analysis uses an optical sensing device such as a video camera. Unlike traditional modal analysis, requiring accelerometers or force sensors to measure the modal characteristics of a structure and animate the motion of a wireframe model of the test structure, the inventive system mathematically modifies the original video recordings by filtering, amplifying, and modifying the playback rate or applying modal shape mask or vectors to produce modified video to show motion at each modal frequency. This provides animated mode shapes with higher spatial and temporal resolution that possible with the traditional approach of using wireframe model animations.