%0 Journal Article %T Testing and simulation of fractionary electromechanical rotative drives %A Burgoa %A D. P. %A Martin %A C. A. %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences %D 2002 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0100-73862002000400011 %X this paper concerns the development of drives that use electromechanical rotative motor systems. it is proposed an experimental drive test structure integrated to simulation softwares. the objective of this work is to show that an affordable model validation procedure can be obtained by combining a precision data acquisition with well tuned state-of-the-art simulation packages. this is required for fitting, in the best way, a drive to its load or, inversely, to adapt loads to given drive characteristics. %K test bench %K simulation %K fractional electrical drives %K automatic test and measurement %K system dynamics analysis. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-73862002000400011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en