Uncertainty propagation in SEA for structural–acoustic coupled systems with non-deterministic parameters

•Statistical energy analysis for systems with interval parameters is performed.•A program for vertex method with arbitrary dimensional interval input vector is coded.•A method for estimating ranges of dynamic responses of the system is proposed.•Calculations of uncertain responses could be in parallel regarding interval parameters by LM.

Considering limited available information on uncertainties in structural - acoustic coupled systems, two methods namely the vertex method and the Legendre orthogonal polynomial based method for predicting their dynamic behavior are developed based on the Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) approach. For the vertex method, an efficient program for determining coordinates of all vertices of the rectangular spanned by entries of the involved interval input vector is coded, which is well suited for an interval input vector in arbitrary dimension. Instead of calculating the extremum of the response of interest, a method for determining its minimal and maximal point vectors dimension by dimension with respect to uncertain parameters is proposed based on the Legendre orthogonal polynomial approximation. Following the theoretical analysis of the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed methods, their validation is performed by one numerical example and two applications.