摘要：The study of the structural dynamics is essential for understanding and assessing of any engineering product performance, knowledge of dynamic structural response being fundamental to ensuring a sustainable and safe product functioning. From all techniques for structural response assessment, the experimental modal analysis (EMA) provides one of the most comprehensive tools for collecting the experimental data, relevant for structure investigation and assessing of the structural response under normal or imposed operating conditions. Once identified the structure in terms of modal model, it can begin to its optimization to face new challenges or functioning tasks. The article presents an experimental modal analysis application, performed on a LEMA 6000kW electric locomotive body on the production cycle of SC Softronic Craiova. The application was made to validate the dynamic finite elements model realised in order to certify the crashworthiness locomotive design and to evaluate the body interaction with bogie and track to avoid the locomotive structural resonance phenomena.
