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Category: LMS Virtual Lab Acoustics
Topic:BEM coupled harmonic
In this tutorial, the coupling of a loudspeaker will be simulated. The vibro-acoustic coupling between
the membranes with its structural behavior and the loudspeaker will be calculated in the Vibro-Acoustic
Response Analysis Case of LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics.
Figure 1:loudspeaker
Overview
Prerequisites
Import the structural mesh ‘membranes.bdf’ (select m - kg - s). Check that both, the
analysis case and dynamic loads options, are toggled off;
Import the acoustic mesh ‘loudspeaker.bdf’ (select m - kg – s), toggle of Create
Analysis Case. You can speed up the model creation by choosing File Import
Acoustic MeshModel mesh. This way the Fluid Material and Properties will be
created.
Create one plane field point mesh: Insert Field Point Meshes Plane
FieldPoint Mesh, see Figure 2, left.
Createa secondPlane Field Point Mesh, see Figure 2, right.
Check / set the mesh types for all the meshes with Tools Set Mesh Parts Type
(membranes = structural, loudspeaker = acoustical, planes = field point).
We can now check the normal mesh orientation, the correction will be observed. The mesh has
not actually been modified, only set to meet the Indirect BEM‟s requirements.
Check also the Material Maximum Frequency Quality Criterion by generating an image
on Properties.
4 Checking ID conflicts
Because both meshes, the Structural and Acoustical, contain identical numbers for nodes and
elements, this can lead to conflicts as long both meshes are contained in the same CATAnalysis
document. There is a tool in Virtual.Lab to check and correct them:
Select the Nodes line in the list and press the button Details.
Now the conflicts between the membranes and the loudspeaker are fixed, by renumbering the
loudspeaker.
Now the node ID conflicts are solved. The element ID conflicts can be solved in the same way,
by avoiding the renumbering of „membranes nodes and elements‟.
Select the Elements in the list above;
Press the button Details;
Now Fix the element ID conflicts in a similar way.
Insert a Mode Set: Insert Vector & Functions Sets Mode Set;
Add a Data File to the Data source and select the modes_memb.pch as data file;
Click OK;
Double click on the Modal Editing;
Select All Modes;
Edit the values for Viscous Damping in clicking on the Edit Value Button, enter 1% as
viscous damping and click OK;
ClickOK.
We can create images (Option “Translational Displacement magnitude”) to look at the structural
modes shapes.
Create a Load Function Set: InsertVector & Functions Set Load Function Set;
Use the default options and select Force as Physical Data Type OK;
Right click on Load Function Set.1 Add Edited LoadFunction;
In the Attributes tab, select DOF +Z;
In the Values tab, enter one value: 0.1N at 440 Hz.
Click OK.
Right click on the Acoustic Mesh Preprocessing Set and choose Hide/Show;
Right click on the Field Point Meshes and choose Hide/Show;
It is very important to select the right DOF for the excitation points. During the attachment of the
loads, every selected DOF will need to be attached to a corresponding load function. If they are
not, the load function set will not be valid.
Double click on Load Conditions, select Automatic for the definition mode;
Double click on Load Attachments, choose Select Load Id as the Load Attachment
Type;
Select then the created Edited Load Function with the Id LoadResponseID.1 for both
Locations.
Two field point meshes will be inserted: one sphere and one circle.
Insert Field Point Meshes Spherical Field Point Mesh with a center of X=0 mm,
Y=150 mm, Z=-200 mm, a radius of 3000 mm and a refinement of 10.
The acoustic response on the sphere has been calculated. Several visualizations are now
possible (pressure, velocity, intensity). The instructions below are for the intensity.
Figure 13: Image Edition in the Selections tab (left) and in the Visu tab (right)
Go to the tab Visu, select Average iso in Types, select Normal Component in Criteria,
see Figure 13, right.
The image displays the active acoustic intensity projected onto the normal vector to the FPM
surface (which points outwards). This is the density of acoustic energy flowing outwards the
spherical field point meshes.
Note that this is not a visualization of vectors. It is simply a scalar (the real part of the acoustic
intensity) that causes the deformation according to the normal of the nodes.
Edit the image and select Normal component dB with shift in criteria list
Two-dimensional analysis of the sound directivity is also possible. To accomplish this, a field
point response analysis on the circle has to be done.
Use to fit the image on screen. If nothing is displayed, make sure that the render
style is correct ( ).