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Vibroacoustic response of stiffened thin plates to incident sound

Vibroacoustic response of stiffened thin plates to incident sound
Vibroacoustic response of stiffened thin plates to incident sound
A model was developed and applied for predicting the vibroacoustic response of stiffened plates excited by different incident sound fields. A relationship between the Joint Acceptance Function (JAF) and the modal radiation efficiency is derived. This allows a direct calculation for both the vibration response and the sound transmission loss (TL) in the presence of a diffuse field whilst accounting for full vibroacoustic coupling. The response for different structural configurations, plane versus diffuse acoustic excitation and modelling approximations are highlighted, so presenting a systematic quantification of the factors influencing the vibroacoustic response. It is found that vibroacoustic coupling is enhanced by the presence of stiffeners, with the effects for different types of acoustic excitation and the contribution from the modal cross terms being most significant for the TL results. A coupled FE-BE numerical model of stiffened plate and other empirical formulae for unstiffened plate are subsequently used for the validation and verification of the proposed model. The results show that the computational cost of simulation can be significantly reduced with a small loss of accuracy when using the proposed model in comparison to the fully coupled FE-BE numerical model.
vibroacoustic coupling, joint acceptance function, Sound transmission loss
0003-682X
Zhao, Dong
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Squicciarini, Giacomo
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Ferguson, Neil
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Zhao, Dong
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Squicciarini, Giacomo
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Ferguson, Neil
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Zhao, Dong, Squicciarini, Giacomo and Ferguson, Neil (2020) Vibroacoustic response of stiffened thin plates to incident sound. Applied Acoustics, 172, [107578]. (doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107578).

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A model was developed and applied for predicting the vibroacoustic response of stiffened plates excited by different incident sound fields. A relationship between the Joint Acceptance Function (JAF) and the modal radiation efficiency is derived. This allows a direct calculation for both the vibration response and the sound transmission loss (TL) in the presence of a diffuse field whilst accounting for full vibroacoustic coupling. The response for different structural configurations, plane versus diffuse acoustic excitation and modelling approximations are highlighted, so presenting a systematic quantification of the factors influencing the vibroacoustic response. It is found that vibroacoustic coupling is enhanced by the presence of stiffeners, with the effects for different types of acoustic excitation and the contribution from the modal cross terms being most significant for the TL results. A coupled FE-BE numerical model of stiffened plate and other empirical formulae for unstiffened plate are subsequently used for the validation and verification of the proposed model. The results show that the computational cost of simulation can be significantly reduced with a small loss of accuracy when using the proposed model in comparison to the fully coupled FE-BE numerical model.

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Accepted/In Press date: 5 August 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2020
Keywords: vibroacoustic coupling, joint acceptance function, Sound transmission loss

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Local EPrints ID: 443440
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/443440
ISSN: 0003-682X
PURE UUID: 2a13591b-4e6b-4151-81b5-01cec9ff782a
ORCID for Dong Zhao: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1380-9306
ORCID for Giacomo Squicciarini: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-6398
ORCID for Neil Ferguson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5955-7477

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Date deposited: 25 Aug 2020 16:33
Last modified: 14 Dec 2024 05:02

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Author: Dong Zhao ORCID iD
Author: Neil Ferguson ORCID iD

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