In the experimenatl modal analysis world a frequency response function, or FRF, is usually a transfer function of acceleration/force vs frequency. (velocity/force, diplacement/force and all their inverses are also used)
It is obtained from the complex spectra of the two signals in a variety of ways, known as H1 H2 H3 and HV (the latter being an engineer's joke by a Mr Harvard Vold).
H1 = (BxA*)/(AxA*)
where B and A are the original complex spectra of each channel, and * means conjugate.
Each of these H formulations has its uses, as they are snsitive in different ways to the noise in each of the data channels. Obviously H1 is more sensitive to errors in A than B for example.
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Greg Locock
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