# How can I identify the damping of the modes in a signal by Cmor wavelet method?

I read several papers which proposed a method to identify modal parameters. such as natural frequency and damping ratio.I've tried to implement those methods by Matlab.but I couldn't get the result.It seems I missed something.anyway it must be some problem with my codes.Please check it and see what's the problem. here you can access to the paper which I've tried to implement its method. here you can see the brief relationships to identify damping and frequency. and here is the code. please look and see if I am doing these relationships right or not.also if you have another method to extract the damping of a mode,please do tell me. Best regards.

t=linspace(0,30,300);
Fs=ceil(inv(t(2)-t(1)));                               % sampling freq
x=sin(2*pi*t*0.1).*(t<10)+sin(2*pi*t*0.3).*...
(t<30)+sin(2*pi*t*0.6).*(t<10).*exp(-t*.1);           % my signal[0.1Hz,0.3Hz,0.6Hz]
wname = 'cmor20-1';                                    % define wavelet name
scales = 1:1:256;                                     % scales range
freq = scal2frq(scales,wname,1/Fs);
coefs = cwt(x,scales,wname,'lvlabs');                  % Get coefs of x
abscof=abs(coefs);                                     % |coefs|'
logcof=log(abscof);                                    % Ln|Wx(a,b)|
argcof=angle(coefs);                                   % arg[Wx(a,b)]
%--calculating linear regression to get alpha & omega--
for j=1:256                                            % for all scales
n=length(t);
aa(j)=-((n*sum(t.*logcof(j,:))-sum(t)*...              % its alpha
sum(logcof(j,:))))/(n*sum(t.^2)-(sum(t))^2);
ba(j)=mean(logcof(j,:))-aa(j)*mean(t);
aw(j)=-((n*sum(t.*argcof(j,:))-sum(t)*...              %its omega
sum(argcof(j,:))))/(n*sum(t.^2)-(sum(t))^2);
bw(j)=mean(argcof(j,:))-aw(j)*mean(t);
f(j)=aw(j)/(2*pi);
dmp(j)=-aa(j)/sqrt(aa(j).^2+aw(j).^2);
end
%%
% this bit will give me freq of all modes in the signal.but i must get these
%information with f(j) too. however my main problem is getting the damping.
figure;
modI=max(abscof');                                      % get  max |coefs| coresponde to freqs of x
modI=modI/max(modI);                                   % scale each clumn 0-1
plot(freq,modI)                                        % Plot all modes. contain all
grid on
axis([0 3 0 max(modI)*1.1])                            % seting the axis
xlabel('Pseudo-Frequency (Hz)'); ylabel('abs(coefs)'); % seting the axis

• Any Idea how to get damping with wavelet method? :( – Electricman Aug 8 '13 at 19:13
• I am also following the paper you mentioned. Have you solved the problem of finding damping of the signal? Please let me know if u get the solution. Thanks in Advance – user13655 Feb 12 '15 at 14:20