Soil Effect on the Finite Simply Supported Plate Vibration

Author(s):  
Bernard Laulagnet

We are interested in the vibration prediction for a finite flexural plate lying on a semi-infinite soil, whose surface is free, except under the plate. Both the plate equation and the Navier equations are solved, using their bidimensional spatial Fourier Transforms. A cousin problem is the one of the acoustic radiation of the unbaffled plate, a one velocity problem. In this soil problem, two velocities are taken into account, the soil shear and dilatation velocities, considered as a visco-elastic homogeneous medium. Finally, expanding the plate displacement on its modes, linear systems in plate displacement amplitude are solved. As for the unbaffled acoustic radiation problem, equivalent vibratory radiation impedances set is proposed, totally new, describing the modal coupling between the plate modes and the soil. It is shown, contrary to the acoustic one velocity problem that the sign of the imaginary part of the complex vibratory radiation terms is negative at very low frequency, and positive above, meaning that the soil adds stiffness to the plate at low frequency and mass above. The soil effect on the plate vibration is of first importance, highly decreasing the plate vibration by more than 30 dB even for thick concrete plates.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Frank Kataka Banaseka ◽  
Hervé Franklin ◽  
Ferdinand A. Katsriku ◽  
Jamal-Deen Abdulai ◽  
Akon Ekpezu ◽  
...  

In recent years, there has been keen interest in the area of Internet of Things connected underground, and with this is the need to fully understand and characterize their operating environment. In this paper, a model, based on the Peplinski principle, for the propagation of waves in soils that takes into account losses attributable to the presence of local inhomogeneity is proposed. In the work, it is assumed that the inhomogeneities are obstacles such as stones or pebbles, of moderate size, all identical and randomly distributed in space. A new wave number is obtained through a combination of the multiple scattering theory and the Peplinski principle. Since the latter principle considers the propagation in a homogeneous medium (without obstacles), the wave number it provides is inserted into the one resulting from the former, the multiple scattering theory. The effective wave number thus obtained is compared numerically with that of Peplinski alone on the one hand and with that of multiple scattering alone on the other hand. The phase velocity and the loss tangent are analyzed against the particle concentration at the low-frequency Rayleigh limit condition ( k a ≲ 0.1 ) and against the frequency at two particle concentrations ( c = 0.2 and c = 0.4 ), two particle radii ( a = 0.55  cm and a = 1.10  cm), and 5% and 50% volumetric water content of the soil. Path losses are also compared to each other to examine the effects on transmission of soil containing obstacles. The results obtained suggest that the proposed model has better accuracy in estimating the wave number than previously used schemes.


1987 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Keltie ◽  
H. Peng

The effects of modal coupling on the acoustic power radiated from line forced panels of unit width with s-s (simply supported-simply supported) and c-c (clamped-clamped) end conditions have been studied. The expressions for the power radiated by the total square terms and by the coupling terms in these two one-dimensional problems were derived using Heckl’s power integral. A qualitative and quantitative discussion regarding the properties of Pmn (the power radiation coefficient of the m- and nth modes) and Dmn (the wavenumber cross-spectrum of modal velocities) for the s-s panel are presented. Numerical calculations (for both s-s and c-c cases) were carried out to investigate the relative importance of the modal coupling in the acoustic radiation. The results show that if the panel is under resonant excitation or if the driving force is at high frequency, then the effects due to modal coupling are negligible. At low frequency, however, or if the panel is under off-resonant excitation, then the contributions due to the modal coupling may be important.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Janc ◽  
Mariola Sliwinska-Kowalska ◽  
Piotr Politanski ◽  
Marek Kaminski ◽  
Magdalena Jozefowicz-Korczynska ◽  
...  

AbstractThe aim of our study was to validate the method of head-shake static posturography (HS-posturography) in healthy individuals and to establish the value of this novel method in the diagnostics of patients with unilateral vestibular lesion (UV). The study included 202 participants divided into two groups, one consisting of 133 patients with canal paresis CP > 19% and one of 69 healthy subjects. Participant was tested according to the standard protocol of static posturography (SP), and with head movements of 0.3 Hz (HS 40), 0.6 Hz (HS 70) in random order controlled by a metronome. HS-posturography revealed a similar repeatability and internal consistency as the standard posturography. In patients with UV, 4th condition revealed higher sensitivity (74%) and specificity (71%) in HS 40 than in the standard posturography (67%, 65% respectively) and HS 70 (54%, 70% respectively). Static posturography and HS- posturography revealed a high reliability of the testing method. The head movements added to static posturography improve the sensitivity and specificity of the method in group with vestibular impairment. The most important test for that purpose seems to be the one on unstable surface with the eyes closed, with low frequency of head movements.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1243
Author(s):  
Hongseok Jeong ◽  
Jeung-Hoon Lee ◽  
Yong-Hyun Kim ◽  
Hanshin Seol

The dominant underwater noise source of a ship is known to be propeller cavitation. Recently, attempts have been made to quantify the source strength using on-board pressure sensors near the propeller, as this has advantages over conventional noise measurement. In this study, a beamforming method was used to estimate the source strength of a cavitating propeller. The method was validated against a model-scale measurement in a cavitation tunnel, which showed good agreement between the measured and estimated source levels. The method was also applied to a full-scale measurement, in which the source level was measured using an external hydrophone array. The estimated source level using the hull pressure sensors showed good agreement with the measured one above 400 Hz, which shows potential for noise monitoring using on-board sensors. A parametric study was carried out to check the practicality of the method. From the results, it was shown that a sufficient recording time is required to obtain a consistent level at high frequencies. Changing the frequency resolution had little effect on the result, as long as enough data were provided for the one-third octave band conversion. The number of sensors affected the mid- to low-frequency data.


2012 ◽  
Vol 140 (8) ◽  
pp. 2628-2646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu-Chih Yang ◽  
Eugenia Kalnay ◽  
Brian Hunt

Abstract An ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is optimal only for linear models because it assumes Gaussian distributions. A new type of outer loop, different from the one used in 3D and 4D variational data assimilation (Var), is proposed for EnKF to improve its ability to handle nonlinear dynamics, especially for long assimilation windows. The idea of the “running in place” (RIP) algorithm is to increase the observation influence by reusing observations when there is strong nonlinear error growth, and thus improve the ensemble mean and perturbations within the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (LETKF) framework. The “quasi-outer-loop” (QOL) algorithm, proposed here as a simplified version of RIP, aims to improve the ensemble mean so that ensemble perturbations are centered at a more accurate state. The performances of LETKF–RIP and LETKF–QOL in the presence of nonlinearities are tested with the three-variable Lorenz model. Results show that RIP and QOL allow LETKF to use longer assimilation windows with significant improvement of the analysis accuracy during periods of high nonlinear growth. For low-frequency observations (every 25 time steps, leading to long assimilation windows), and using the optimal inflation, the standard LETKF RMS error is 0.68, whereas for QOL and RIP the RMS errors are 0.47 and 0.35, respectively. This can be compared to the best 4D-Var analysis error of 0.53, obtained by using both the optimal long assimilation windows (75 time steps) and quasi-static variational analysis.


1990 ◽  
Vol 45 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 536-540
Author(s):  
Mariusz Máckowiak ◽  
Costas Dimitropoulos

Abstract The second-order Raman phonon process for a multilevel spin system is shown to give a quadru-polar spin-lattice relaxation rate T1-1varying as T5 at very low temperatures. This relaxation rate for quadrupole spins is similar to the one discussed for a paramagnetic spin system having a multilevel ground state. The temperature dependence of T1 is discussed on the basis of some simplifying assumptions about the nature of the lattice vibrations in the Debye approximation. This type of relaxation process has been observed below 20 K in tetramethylammonium hydrogen bis-trichloroacetate for the 35Cl T1-1 . Below 20 K the NQR frequency in the same crystal reveals a T4 temperature dependence due to the induced modulations of the vibrational and librational coordinates by the low-frequency acoustic phonons.


2011 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 299-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou Qiang Men ◽  
Christian Resagk

A simple calibration system for magnetic field sensors was designed, and experiments were carried out to calibrate two-dimensional fluxgate sensors and a sensor ring composed of eight fluxgate sensors. Fast Fourier Transforms and trapezoidal numerical integrals were applied to deal with the raw signals. It is found that it is not suitable to apply fast Fourier Transforms only to deal with signals with several peaks close to each other, but trapezoidal numerical integrals should also be used in combination with the FFT method.


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