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Maria Bayard Dühring - Solid Mechanics

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ARTICLE IN PRESS<br />

M.B. <strong>Dühring</strong> et al. / Journal of Sound and Vibration 317 (2008) 557–575 563<br />

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design domain and the natural frequency is now at a lower value than originally. The same tendency is<br />

observed for the example in Fig. 2 where the material is distributed at the nodal lines and the natural<br />

frequency is moved to a lower value. The response at the two target frequencies f ¼ 9:39 and f ¼ 9:71 Hz for<br />

both designs, are given in Table 1 and it is noticed that the objective function is minimized most for both<br />

frequencies in the case where the solid material is placed at the nodal plane. So for the target frequency which<br />

is smaller than the natural frequency the optimization converges to a solution that is not as good as when the<br />

other target frequency is used. The explanation is that a natural frequency, which is originally at one side of<br />

the driving frequency, can only be moved to a value on the same side during the optimization, else the<br />

objective function would have to be increased during a part of the optimization. It is from this example and<br />

the example from Fig. 2 concluded, that when optimizing for a driving frequency close to a natural frequency<br />

there is a tendency for the material to be distributed at the nodal planes for the initial design when the natural<br />

frequency is moved to a lower value. If the natural frequency is moved to a higher value the material is<br />

objective function, Φ [dB]<br />

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Fig. 2. (a) The optimized ceiling design for target frequency 34.56 Hz; (b) frequency plot for initial and optimized designs; (c) the sound<br />

pressure amplitude for initial design; and (d) the sound pressure amplitude for optimized design.<br />

Fig. 3. Optimized design for the rectangular room for the higher target frequency f ¼ 4 34:56 Hz.<br />

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