MEscope Training Videos
MEscope Training Videos are an archive of webinars and YouTube videos offered to MEscope customers and those that are interested in MEscope. All videos are unlocked for MEscope customers with a registered product license, and cover a wide range of topics including ODS Videos™, Modal Analysis, Operational Deflection Shapes, Operational Modal Analysis, FEA Modal Updating, Structural Dynamics Modification, 3D model creation and setup, and more.
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Recent Videos
A Look Inside the ODS Videos™ Toolbox
MEscope ODS Videos™ Case Study Oil Refinery Piping
MEscope ODS Videos™ Case Study: Stator Coolant Pump Revisited
Using ODS Videos for Natural Frequency Testing of Wind Turbine Towers
Top 10 ODS Case Studies
Post Processing Tips with MEscope ODS Videos™
MEscope ODS Videos™ Case Study, Vertical Pump
MEscope ODS Videos Project 'Start to Finish' 5 MW Turbine Generator
An Introduction to MEscope ODS Videos™
Curve Fitting FEA Mode Shapes to ODS Data
MEscope Webinar: A Look Inside the ODS Videos™ Toolbox
MEscope 101: Introduction to MEscope
Video #1: Importing Data, Labelling Measurements, Post-Processing Time Histories
Video #2: Building a 3D Model, Substructures, Using a Drawing or Photo
Video #3: Setting up Animation, Stick Model, Surface Model, Photo Model, M# links
Video #4: Shape Animation, Zoom, Pan, Rotate, Speed, Amplitude, Reporting
MEscope 201: Advanced Signal Processing
Video #1: Data Block Tools Commands
Video #2: Data Block Transform Commands
Video #3: More Data Block Transform Commands, Shape Table Tools Commands
Video #4: Data Block Acoustics Commands
MEscope 301: Modal Analysis
Video #1: Modal Frequency, Damping, and Mode Shape, Polynomial curve fitter and Quick Fit, Cure fitting in frequency bands, residual effects of out-of-band modes, Fit Function synthesis
Video #2: Mode Indicator functions (CMIF, MMIF), OMA curve fitting, mode shape scaling, Residual mode shape, OMA mode shape, UMM mode shape, Mode shape integration/differentation
Video #3: Using MAC, SDI & Modal Participation, Comparing curve fitting results, FRF synthesis, integration & differentiation, Data Block Correlation, M# Pairs Correlation
Video #4: Single reference modal testing, Repeatable impact testing, Rapid testing using a TRN Chain
MEscope 401: Advanced Modal Analysis
Video #1 Review of ODS testing and EMA, The Four Laws of Modal Analysis
Video #2: Review of Quick Fit, Curve Fitting in Frequency Bands, Residual Effects of out-of-band modes
Video #3: Fit Function synthesis vs. FRF synthesis, Complexity Plot, Normalized Shapes, Magnitude Ranking
Video #4: Multi-reference testing and curve fitting, Multi-reference ODS, Multi-reference Mode indicators
Video #5: Multi-reference curve-fitting and Modal Participation, Modal parameters
Video #6: Stability Diagram, Stability curve-fitting, OMA curve-fitting
Video #7: Modal Participation Matrix, Shape Expansion
Video #8: M# Decomposition, M# Expansion
MEscope 501: Structural Dynamics Modifications (SDM)
Video #1 Spring Between Two Plates
Video #2: Sub-structuring
Video #3: Adding a Rib Stiffener
Video #4: Rib Stiffener with Rotational DOF's
Video #5: Adding a Tuned Absorber
Video #6: Modal Sensititvity
Video #7: SDM Background
MEscope Curve Fitting
Curve Fitting 101
Curve Fitting 201
Curve Fitting 301
Curve Fitting FEA Mode Shapes to ODS Data
Curve Fitting using MEscopeVES
More Curve Fitting with MEscope
Advanced Curve Fitting using MEscopeVES
Multi-Reference Curve Fitting
Local versus Global Curve fitting
Curve Fitting & Shape Comparison
Learning Lab Videos
Slinky Impact Testing
Correlating Spectral Measurements
A New Way to do Impact or ODS Testing Using MEscope
Making Repeatable Measurements during Route-Based Condition Monitoring
Acquiring ODS Data during Route-Based Condition Monitoring
Documenting Machine Condition with ODS Videos
Structural Dynamics Modification and Sub-Structuring
Using Vibration for Pass/Fail Testing of Mechanical Structures & Systems
Using Vibration for Pass/Fail Testing of Mechanical Structures & Systems
Using Structural Dynamics Modification (SDM) in MEscope
Automated Roving Accelerometer Impact Test
Detection and Diagnosis of Three Common Rotating Machinery Faults
Using the Vibrant Script Language (VSL)
MEscope Structural Dynamics Modification (SDM) using Substructuring
Locating & Quantifying Unbalance in Rotating Machinery
MEscope Fault Correlation Tools (FaCTs)
Signal Processing in MEscope
Using SDM in MEscope
Using MEscope for FEA Model Updating
MEscope Hotkeys, Macros and Monitoring
Using Macros and Hotkeys in MEscope
Setting Up ODS and Mode Shape Animation in MEscope
Introduction to MEscope
Introduction to MEscopeVES
MEscopeVES General Navigation
Using FaCTs to Identify Unbalance in Rotating Machinery
Real-time ODS using MEscopeMSS
Introduction to MEscopeMSS
MEscope YouTube Training Videos
Introduction to MEscope VES
A brief introduction to the ME’scope Visual Engineering Series, including tools and advanced 3D model and shape animation capabilities.
Building and Animating a Plate Model in MEscope VES
This video takes you through the three basic steps that are required for animating your shape data in ME’scopeVES: 1) build a geometric model of the test structure, 2) import your data into a Data Block file, and 3) assign measurements in the Data Block to points and directions on the model.
Drawing a 3D Structural Model
This video demonstrates several different ways for building 3D structure models in ME’scopeVES; 1) using the Drawing Assistant, 2) building a model using Points, Lines, and Surfaces, 3) Extruding a 2D SubStructure into a 3D model, and 4) tracing a 2D profile from a digital photgraph.
Displaying Shapes in Animation
This video includes more of the details of animating shapes on a structure model. It covers: 1) measurement coordinates, 2) animation equations, 3) interpolation, and 4) many of the commands in the Animate menu.
Basic Modal Analysis
This video is an introduction to modal parameter estimation, or curve fitting. It covers the basic steps of curve fitting; 1) count the modes on a mode indicator graph, 2) estimate modal frequency and damping, 3) estimate modal residues, and 4) save the modal parameters into a Shape Table.
Operational Modal Analysis
This video illustrates the curve fitting capabilities of the Operational Modal Analysis Option in ME’scopeVES. To simulate an OMA, a “round trip” is performed using a modal model. The MIMO Simulator in the Acquisition window is used to “excite” the modal model of the structure with a random force. Acceleration Cross spectra are then “acquired” and curve fit to recover the modes of the modal model.
Experimental FEA
This tutorial illustrates the capabilities of the Experimental FEA Option in ME’scopeVES. A finite element model is constructed from a PhotoModel on a beam structure. The finite element model is then solved for its analytical modes, and they are compared with the experimental modes of the actual structure.
FEA Modal Updating
This tutorial illustrates the capabilities of the FEA Model Updating Option in ME’scopeVES. The FEA model constructed in the Experimental FEA tutorial is used for model updated. The thickness of the vertical plate in the model is updated so that its analytical modes more closely match the experimental modes of the structure.
Advanced Modeling Techniques
This video illustrates the use of some of the advanced drawing capabilities in ME’scopeVES for creating 3D models. In it you will learn how to 1) download a model from the Vibrant Internet model store, 2) create part profiles from machine drawings, and 3) create 3D machine parts from 2D profiles.
Impact Testing for Modal Analysis
Using a Dytran impact hammer and tri-axial accelerometer, the modes of a simple I-beam are determined and animated using ME’scopeVES.
Animation of Structural Resonances
Video showing how ME’scopeVES animates Experimentally Derived Structural Resonances using 3D/PhotoRealistic Models
Experimental Modal Analysis of a Violin
Experimental Modal Analysis and animation of a PhotoRealistic model of a violin using ME’scopeVES.
BMW Gearbox Housing Animation
Animation of a PhotoRealistic BMW Gearbox Housing model using data acquired with a Polytec Laser measurement system in ME’scopeVES