The Method of Proper Orthogonal （适当的正交的方法）.pdf

c Nonlinear Dynamics (2005) 41: 147–169 Springer 2005 The Method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Dynamical Characterization and Order Reduction of Mechanical Systems: An Overview 1,5,∗ 1 2,3 GAETAN KERSCHEN , JEAN-CLAUDE GOLINVAL , ALEXANDER F. VAKAKIS , and LAWRENCE A. BERGMAN4 1 ` ` 2 Department of Materials, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium; Division of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece; 3Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (adjunct), Department of Aerospace Engineering (adjunct), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.; 4Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.; 5Present address: Postdoctoral fellow, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A.; ∗Author for correspondence (e-mail: g.kerschen@ulg.ac.be; fax: +32-4-3664856) (Received: 27 January 2004; accepted: 16 July 2004) Abstract. Modal analysis is used extensively for understanding the dynamic behavior of structures. However, a major concern for structural dynamicists is that its validity is limited to linear structures. New developments have been proposed in order to examine nonlinear systems, among which the theory based on nonlinear normal modes is indubitably the most appealing. In this paper, a different approach is adopted, and proper orthogonal decomposition is considered. The modes extracted from the decomposition may serve two purposes, namely order reduction by projecting high-dimensional dat