A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell

Nowadays, the finite element method (FEM) – boundary element method (BEM) is used to predict the performance of structural-acoustic problem, i.e. the frequency response analysis, modal analysis. The accuracy of conventional FEM/BEM for structural-acoustic problems strongly depends on the size of the...

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Main Authors: Wanyi TIAN, Lingyun YAO, Li LI
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Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-10-01
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1629
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description Nowadays, the finite element method (FEM) – boundary element method (BEM) is used to predict the performance of structural-acoustic problem, i.e. the frequency response analysis, modal analysis. The accuracy of conventional FEM/BEM for structural-acoustic problems strongly depends on the size of the mesh, element quality, etc. As element size gets greater and distortion gets severer, the deviation of high frequency problem is also clear. In order to improve the accuracy of structural-acoustic problem, a smoothed finite-element/boundary-element coupling procedure (SFEM/BEM) is extended to analyze the structural-acoustic problem consisting of a shell structure interacting with the cavity in this paper, in which the SFEM and boundary element method (BEM) models are used to simulate the structure and the fluid, respectively. The governing equations of the structural-acoustic problems are established by coupling the SFEM for the structure and the BEM for the fluid. The solutions of SFEM are often found to be much more accurate than those of the FEM model. Based on its attractive features, it was decided in the present work to extend SFEM further for use in structural-acoustic analysis by coupling it with BEM, the present SFEM/BEM is implemented to predict the vehicle structure-acoustic frequency response analysis, and two numerical experiments results show that the present method can provide more accurate results compared with the standard FEM/BEM using the same mesh. It indicates that the present SFEM/BEM can be widely applied to solving many engineering noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) problems with more accurate solutions.
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spelling doaj-art-25fcc6cb7e844fecb16f1c536a11ac902025-08-20T03:14:36ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2016-10-0142110.1515/aoa-2017-0006A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of ShellWanyi TIAN0Lingyun YAO1Li LI2Hunan UniversitySouthwest UniversitySouthwest UniversityNowadays, the finite element method (FEM) – boundary element method (BEM) is used to predict the performance of structural-acoustic problem, i.e. the frequency response analysis, modal analysis. The accuracy of conventional FEM/BEM for structural-acoustic problems strongly depends on the size of the mesh, element quality, etc. As element size gets greater and distortion gets severer, the deviation of high frequency problem is also clear. In order to improve the accuracy of structural-acoustic problem, a smoothed finite-element/boundary-element coupling procedure (SFEM/BEM) is extended to analyze the structural-acoustic problem consisting of a shell structure interacting with the cavity in this paper, in which the SFEM and boundary element method (BEM) models are used to simulate the structure and the fluid, respectively. The governing equations of the structural-acoustic problems are established by coupling the SFEM for the structure and the BEM for the fluid. The solutions of SFEM are often found to be much more accurate than those of the FEM model. Based on its attractive features, it was decided in the present work to extend SFEM further for use in structural-acoustic analysis by coupling it with BEM, the present SFEM/BEM is implemented to predict the vehicle structure-acoustic frequency response analysis, and two numerical experiments results show that the present method can provide more accurate results compared with the standard FEM/BEM using the same mesh. It indicates that the present SFEM/BEM can be widely applied to solving many engineering noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) problems with more accurate solutions.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1629Smoothed finite element method (SFEM)FEMBEMstructural-acoustic analysis
spellingShingle Wanyi TIAN
Lingyun YAO
Li LI
A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
Archives of Acoustics
Smoothed finite element method (SFEM)
FEM
BEM
structural-acoustic analysis
title A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
title_full A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
title_fullStr A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
title_full_unstemmed A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
title_short A Coupled Smoothed Finite Element-Boundary Element Method for Structural-Acoustic Analysis of Shell
title_sort coupled smoothed finite element boundary element method for structural acoustic analysis of shell
topic Smoothed finite element method (SFEM)
FEM
BEM
structural-acoustic analysis
url https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1629
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