Enhancing accuracy in reconstruction of vibro-acoustic responses of a complex structure using Helmholtz equation least squares based nearfield acoustical holography

• Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 127; no. 3_Supplement; p. 1793
• Main Authors: Natarajan, Logesh Kumar, Wu, Sean F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2010
• ISSN: 0001-4966; 1520-8524
• DOI: 10.1121/1.3383987

In traditional nearfield acoustical holography, the acoustic pressures in the near field are measured, and the entire acoustic field including the normal component of the surface velocity are reconstructed. This type of approach may be appropriate for reconstructing the acoustic pressure field, but not for reconstructing normal surface velocity in practice because not enough nearfield information is collected to yield satisfactory reconstruction of the normal surface velocity. In this paper, we propose to supplement the acoustic pressure measurements with a few normal surface velocity measurements, which can be used as benchmarks in optimizing the reconstruction of normal surface velocity. These data are taken as input to the Helmholtz equation least squares method based NAH to reconstruct the acoustic pressure and normal velocity on the surface of a vibrating structure. The accuracy in reconstruction is examined experimentally on a baffled rectangular plate with clamped boundary conditions subject to random excitations. To validate the results, the reconstructed field acoustic pressures are compared with those measured by microphones, and the normal surface velocities were compared with the benchmark values collected by using a scanning laser vibrometer under the same condition.