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FrequencyStructuralResults

Frequency response structural solution and derived quantities

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Description

A FrequencyStructuralResults object contains the displacement, velocity, and acceleration in a form convenient for plotting and postprocessing.

Displacement, velocity, and acceleration are reported for the nodes of the triangular or tetrahedral mesh generated by generateMesh. The displacement, velocity, and acceleration values at the nodes appear as FEStruct objects in the Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration properties. The properties of these objects contain the components of the displacement, velocity, and acceleration at the nodal locations.

To evaluate the stress, strain, von Mises stress, principal stress, and principal strain at the nodal locations, use evaluateStress, evaluateStrain, evaluateVonMisesStress, evaluatePrincipalStress, and evaluatePrincipalStrain, respectively.

To evaluate the reaction forces on a specified boundary, use evaluateReaction.

To interpolate the displacement, velocity, acceleration, stress, strain, and von Mises stress to a custom grid, such as the one specified by meshgrid, use interpolateDisplacement, interpolateVelocity, interpolateAcceleration, interpolateStress, interpolateStrain, and interpolateVonMisesStress, respectively.

For a frequency response model with damping, the results are complex. Use functions such as abs and angle to obtain real-valued results, such as the magnitude and phase. See Solve Frequency Response Structural Problem with Damping.

Creation

Solve a frequency response problem by using the solve function. This function returns a frequency response structural solution as a FrequencyStructuralResults object.

Properties

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This property is read-only.

Displacement values at the nodes, returned as an FEStruct object. The properties of this object contain the components of the displacement at the nodal locations.

This property is read-only.

Velocity values at the nodes, returned as an FEStruct object. The properties of this object contain the components of the velocity at the nodal locations.

This property is read-only.

Acceleration values at the nodes, returned as an FEStruct object. The properties of this object contain the components of the acceleration at the nodal locations.

This property is read-only.

Solution frequencies, returned as a real vector. SolutionFrequencies is the same as the flist input to solve.

Data Types: double

This property is read-only.

Finite element mesh, returned as a FEMesh object.

Object Functions

evaluateStressEvaluate stress for dynamic structural analysis problem
evaluateStrainEvaluate strain for dynamic structural analysis problem
evaluateVonMisesStressEvaluate von Mises stress for dynamic structural analysis problem
evaluateReactionEvaluate reaction forces on boundary
evaluatePrincipalStressEvaluate principal stress at nodal locations
evaluatePrincipalStrainEvaluate principal strain at nodal locations
interpolateDisplacementInterpolate displacement at arbitrary spatial locations
interpolateVelocityInterpolate velocity at arbitrary spatial locations for all time or frequency steps for dynamic structural problem
interpolateAccelerationInterpolate acceleration at arbitrary spatial locations for all time or frequency steps for dynamic structural problem
interpolateStressInterpolate stress at arbitrary spatial locations
interpolateStrainInterpolate strain at arbitrary spatial locations
interpolateVonMisesStressInterpolate von Mises stress at arbitrary spatial locations

Examples

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Open Live Script

Solve a frequency response problem with damping. The resulting displacement values are complex. To obtain the magnitude and phase of displacement, use the abs and angle functions, respectively. To speed up computations, solve the model using the results of modal analysis.

Modal Analysis

Create a geometry representing a thin plate.

gm = multicuboid(10,10,0.025);

Create an femodel object for modal analysis and include the geometry in the model.

model = femodel(AnalysisType="structuralModal", ...
                Geometry=gm);

Generate a mesh.

model = generateMesh(model);

Specify Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and the mass density of the material.

model.MaterialProperties = ...
    materialProperties(YoungsModulus=2E11, ...
                       PoissonsRatio=0.3, ...
                       MassDensity=8000);

Identify faces for applying boundary constraints and loads by plotting the geometry with the face and edge labels.

pdegplot(model.Geometry,FaceLabels="on",FaceAlpha=0.5)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 6 objects of type quiver, text, patch, line.

figure
pdegplot(model.Geometry,EdgeLabels="on",FaceAlpha=0.5)

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 6 objects of type quiver, text, patch, line.

Specify constraints on the sides of the plate (faces 3, 4, 5, and 6) to prevent rigid body motions.

model.FaceBC([3,4,5,6]) = faceBC(Constraint="fixed");

Solve the problem for the frequency range from -Inf to 12*pi.

Rm = solve(model,FrequencyRange=[-Inf,12*pi]);

Frequency Response Analysis

Switch the analysis type of the model to frequency response.

model.AnalysisType = "structuralFrequency";

Specify the pressure loading on top of the plate (face 2) to model an ideal impulse excitation. In the frequency domain, this pressure pulse is uniformly distributed across all frequencies.

model.FaceLoad(2) = faceLoad(Pressure=1E2);

First, solve the problem without damping.

flist = [0,1,1.5,linspace(2,3,100),3.5,4,5,6]*2*pi;
RfrModalU = solve(model,flist,ModalResults=Rm);

Now, solve the problem with damping equal to 2% of critical damping for all modes.

RfrModalAll = solve(model,flist, ...
                    ModalResults=Rm, ...
                    DampingZeta=0.02);

Solve the same problem with frequency-dependent damping. In this example, use the solution frequencies from flist and damping values between 1% and 10% of critical damping.

omega = flist;
zeta = linspace(0.01,0.1,length(omega));
zetaW = @(omegaMode) interp1(omega,zeta,omegaMode);

RfrModalFD = solve(model,flist, ...
                   ModalResults=Rm, ...
                   DampingZeta=zetaW);

Interpolate the displacement at the center of the top surface of the plate for all three cases.

iDispU = interpolateDisplacement(RfrModalU,[0;0;0.025]);
iDispAll = interpolateDisplacement(RfrModalAll,[0;0;0.025]);
iDispFD = interpolateDisplacement(RfrModalFD,[0;0;0.025]);

Plot the magnitude of the displacement.

figure
hold on
plot(RfrModalU.SolutionFrequencies,abs(iDispU.Magnitude));
plot(RfrModalAll.SolutionFrequencies,abs(iDispAll.Magnitude));
plot(RfrModalFD.SolutionFrequencies,abs(iDispFD.Magnitude));
title("Magnitude")

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Magnitude contains 3 objects of type line.

Plot the phase of the displacement.

figure
hold on
plot(RfrModalU.SolutionFrequencies,angle(iDispU.Magnitude));
plot(RfrModalAll.SolutionFrequencies,angle(iDispAll.Magnitude));
plot(RfrModalFD.SolutionFrequencies,angle(iDispFD.Magnitude));
title("Phase")

Figure contains an axes object. The axes object with title Phase contains 3 objects of type line.

Version History

Introduced in R2019b

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