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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 229

Reduced Order Finite Element Models for Sound Transmission Analysis through a Double Sandwich Panel with Viscoelastic Core

W. Larbi, J.-F. Deü and R. Ohayon

CNAM, Paris, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
, "Reduced Order Finite Element Models for Sound Transmission Analysis through a Double Sandwich Panel with Viscoelastic Core", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 229, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.229
Keywords: sandwich plate, double-wall, viscoelastic, vibroacoustic, finite element, modal reduction..

Summary
This paper presents a finite element model for sound transmission analysis through double sandwich panels with viscoelastic core inserted in an infinite baffle. The proposed model is derived from a multi-field variational principle involving structural displacement of the panels and acoustic pressure inside the fluid cavity. To solve the vibro-acoustic problem, the plate displacements are expanded as a modal summation of the plate's real eigenfunctions in vacuo. Similarly, the cavity pressure is expanded as a summation over the modes of the cavity with rigid boundaries. Then, an appropriate reduced-order model with a mode acceleration method by adding quasi-static corrections is introduced. The structure is excited by a plane wave. The radiated sound power is calculated by means of a discrete solution of the Rayleigh integral. Fluid loading is neglected. Various results are presented in order to validate and illustrate the efficiency of the proposed reduced finite element formulations.

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