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VIBRATION
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 359-374Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/vibration6020022
Keywords
semi-analytical finite-element (SAFE) method; forced wave propagation; non-destructive evaluation techniques; structural health monitoring (SHM)
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This paper proposes an extension of the Semi-Analytical Finite-Element (SAFE) method that combines COMSOL and Matlab for solving free and forced wave propagation problems. The customised software takes advantage of both the commercial FE software and Matlab. Validation of the method is done using models of a simply supported plate strip and a complex geometry, showing good agreement with analytical and numerical results.
The Semi-Analytical Finite-Element (SAFE) method represents one of the most established numerical approaches for predicting the propagation of elastic waves in one-dimensional structures of arbitrary cross-sections. Its implementation in the commercial finite-element software COMSOL Multiphysics has been proposed in recent years; however, it is limited to only the free wave propagation for computing dispersion curves. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes an extension of this approach that combines COMSOL and its Livelink for Matlab tool. This enables the extraction from COMSOL of the assembled mass and stiffness SAFE matrices to solve problems of both free and forced wave propagation in the Matlab environment. The resulting customised software takes advantage of both the potential of commercial FE software and the power of Matlab without worrying about compatibility issues. A model of a simply supported plate strip and that of a more complex geometry are implemented to validate, respectively, the SAFE matrix extraction procedure and the implemented forced response formulation. The results agree well with corresponding analytical and numerical results validating the proposed implementation of the SAFE method.
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