Normal Mode Analysis for Connected Plate Structure Using Efficient Mode Polynomials with Component Mode Synthesis

In the engine room and stern adjacent to the main excitation force of the ship, there are many fuel and fresh water tank structures required for ship operation which are always exposed to vibrations. Therefore, it is necessary to review the anti-vibration design to prevent such vibration problems at the design stage, and for this reason, although commercial finite element analysis (FEA) programs are widely used, approximate analysis methods are still developed and used because of the limited time until modeling and analysis results are obtained. Until now, only known elastic boundary conditions have been used in many studies using approximate analysis methods used to calculate natural vibrations for beams or plates. However, many local structures, such as tank edges and equipment foundations, consist of connected structures and it is very difficult to find suitable elastic boundary conditions. Vibration analysis of many local structures in ships, such as tanks and supports for equipment, can be simplified by breaking them up into smaller subsystems which are related through geometrical conditions and natural conditions at junctions. In this study, polynomials for simple support and fixed support were proposed to represent each subsystem and a polynomial to be applied to the plate constituting the tank was proposed by combining them. Until now, there have been many studies on single beams or single plates for approximate analysis. However, there was no research on this to the extent that no reference material could be found for the connected structure. The proposed method has been applied to tanks which are bounded by bulkhead and a deck. The results of this study shows good agreements with those obtained by the FEA Software (Patran/Nastran).