PSI - Issue 17

Pedro J. Sousa et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 17 (2019) 812–821 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000 – 000

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Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the experimental setup, highlighting the directions of the considered coordinate system. (b) Photo of the measurement target, an RC helicopter

The complete methodology was applied to a scaled RC helicopter whose blades were rotating at 680 rpm. A sequence of frames was acquired and processed, barely showing differences between them. Thus, a representative one was chosen and its displacements are shown in Fig. 2.

(a) Displacement along X

(b) Displacement along Y