Ranking paths in statistical energy analysis models with non-deterministic loss factors》.pdf

Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 52-53 (2015) 741–753 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing journal homepage: /locate/ymssp Ranking paths in statistical energy analysis models with non-deterministic loss factors Àngels Aragonès, Oriol Guasch n GTM – Grup de Recerca en Tecnologies Mèdia, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull C/Quatre Camins 2, 08022 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Finding the contributions of transmission paths in statistical energy analysis (SEA) models Received 6 November 2013 has become an established valuable tool to detect and remedy vibro-acoustic problems. Received in revised form Paths are identified in SEA according to Craiks definition and recently, very efficient 14 June 2014 methods have been derived to rank them in the framework of graph theory. However, up Accepted 30 July 2014 to date classification schemes have only considered the mean values of loss factors for Available online 22 August 2014 path comparison, their variance being ignored. This can result in significant errors in the Keywords: final results. In this work it is proposed to address this problem by defining stochastic Statistical energy analysis biparametric SEA graphs whose edges are assigned both, mean and variance values. Paths Transmission path analysis