Abstract

The sound power radiated by a plane vibrating structure can be calculated by numerical integration of the Rayleigh integral or by means of finite and boundary element methods. However, these methods are usually time-consuming due to the numerical evaluation of surface integrals. This paper reviews and discusses an alternative numerical method (the lumped parameter model) to compute the sound radiation from planar structures which is based just on surface velocity information and a direct numerical evaluation of the radiation resistance matrix of the structure. As an example, the technique is applied to estimate the sound radiated from the structural axisymmetric modes of both clamped and simply-supported circular baffled plates. © 2008 IMACS.