Nonlinear transient response analysis for double walls with a porous material supported by nonlinear springs using FEM and MSKE method

• We analyze impact responses of a soundproof structure with frames supported by nonlinear springs.
• The structure contains a porous material sandwiched between a damped panel and a cover plate.
• We propose a new numerical method of nonlinear transient responses using FEM and MSKE method.
• To reduce DOF, we introduce normal coordinates corresponding to linear vibration modes.
• We find nonlinear couplings between modes in the double walls and in the nonlinear springs.

In this paper, we newly propose a fast computation method for the nonlinear transient responses including coupling between nonlinear springs and sound proof structures having porous materials using FEM. In this method, we extend our numerical method named as Modal Strain and Kinetic Method (i.e. MSKE method proposed previously by Yamaguchi who is one of the authors) from linear damping analysis to nonlinear dynamic analysis. We assume that the restoring force of the spring has cubic nonlinearity and linear hysteresis damping. To calculate damping properties for soundproof structures including elastic body, viscoelastic body and porous body, displacement vectors as common unknown variable are solved under coupled condition. The damped sound fields in the porous materials are defined by complex effective density and complex bulk modulus. The discrete equations in physical coordinate for this system are transformed into nonlinear ordinary coupled differential equations using normal coordinates corresponding to linear natural modes. Further, using MSKE method, modal damping can be derived approximately under coupled conditions between hysteresis damping of viscoelastic materials, damping of the springs and damping due to flow resistance in porous materials. The modal damping is used for the nonlinear differential equation to compute nonlinear transient responses.Moreover, using the proposed method, we demonstrate new vibration phenomena including nonlinear coupling between nonlinear springs and soundproof structures by use of a simplified model. As a typical numerical example of the soundproof structure, we adopt double walls with a porous material. The double walls are supported by nonlinear concentrated springs. We clarify influences of amplitude of the impact force on nonlinear transient responses. We focused on the vibration modes, which magnify the amplitudes of the double walls. In these modes, the internal air of the porous material played a role of a pneumatic spring. Under a very large impact force as a severe condition, there exist the complicated nonlinear couplings between these modes and the super harmonic components of the rigid modes of the whole structure with large deformations in the nonlinear springs.