A New Updating Method for the Undamped Vibroacoustic System with No Spill-Over ()
1. Introduction
It is well known that the Finite Element Model (FEM) can be used to predict the dynamic characteristics of the engineering structures. In practice, the structural dynamic mathematical models are usually very large and sparse, and only a small number of natural frequencies (eigenvalues) and model shapes (eigenvectors) can be experimentally measured from a realized actual structure. Comparing with the corresponding ones from the FEM of these structures, there may be inconsistencies between these two sets of eigenpairs, i.e., the FEM may be inaccurate. Therefore, the existing FEM should be updated with minimal changes, so that the updated model can accurately predict the dynamic characteristics of the structure. On the other hand, the method of Model Updating (MUP) can also be used to eliminate resonance. As is known, if frequencies of the system excited are the same as or close to the natural frequencies of a certain order, the vibrations of the system may be significantly amplified and resonance occurs, which may cause very large damage. Passive control [1] and active control [2] are two classical methods to deal with resonance problems. Active control relies on feedback control through actuators and sensors, while passive control, which is also known as model updating, updates the physical parameters of the original system so that some “unstable” natural frequencies are replaced by newly measured or expected ones. For large structures, there are usually only a few natural frequencies that need to be reassigned, due to the limited number and frequency range of measured coordinates. In order to ensure the stability of the structure, the remaining unmeasured natural frequencies and model shapes should be kept unchanged. In other words, it is required to keep the unchanged eigenvalues and their related eigenvectors unaffected by model updating when the system is adjusted and modified, which is called no spill-over property.
In the past decades, various techniques for MUP by the measured eigendata have been discussed, for example, Friswell [3] [4], Kuo [5] [6], Chu [7] , and Moreno [9]. The main purpose of MUP is to characterize the coefficient matrices of FEM by some prescribed eigenpairs, and its main challenge is how to preserve the no spill-over property and the structures of system matrices (such as symmetry, positive definiteness and sparsity, and so on) simultaneously. Chu et al. [10] investigated the spill-over phenomenon in the MUP. They showed that the MUP with no spill-over is possible in undamped models. Mao [11] considered the MUP with no spill-over where the mass matrix and stiffness matrices are updated simultaneously, and the matrices preserve positive definiteness. For the damped vibration system, Chu provided some sufficient and necessary conditions that the MUP with no spill-over is solvable with mass and stiffness matrices being positive definite. With the spectral decomposition of some matrix polynomials, the solutions of the MUP with no spill-over were characterized for the undamped piezoelectric smart structure system [12] and the
-palindromic quadratic system [13]. Recently, analytical expressions of structure preserving no spill-over updating were determined for some specific structured matrix pencils, including symmetric, Hermitian,
-even and
-odd [14]. They first consider a quadratic inverse eigenvalues problem where the no spill-over property and the
-symmetric structures of coefficient matrices are preserved, simultaneously. Therefore, MUP with no spill-over of some structured vibration systems remains a fundamental challenge in the field.
By the finite element technique, the motion for the structure interacting with the enclosed acoustic medium of the undamped vibroacoustic systems can be expressed as the following differential equation [15]
(1)
where
(2)
with
,
and
being symmetric, and
. In (1), the finite elements of the structure and the cavity are coupled together, and their dynamic response affects each other, characterized in the acoustic-structural and structural-acoustic coupling matrices
and
,
and
are referred to as the acoustic and structural mass matrices, while
and
are acoustic and structural stiffness matrices. Let
and
, the vibration of the undamped vibroacoustic model (1) can be characterized by eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the following generalized eigenvalue problem
(3)
As is known, if
is nonsingular, then
has
eigenvalues. In this paper, we consider the MUP of the undamped vibroacoustic system with no spill-over, which can be stated as follows:
Problem (MUP-UVA): Given an analytical model
, a set of its eigenpairs
, and a set of measured eigenpairs
, where both
and
are closed under complex conjugate, find
and
such that
The eigenpairs
of original system are replaced by
in the updated system.
The remaining
unknown eigenpairs of the updated system are the same as those of the original system.
The acousti–structural coupling matrices
and
are kept unchanged.
With the assumption that the structural-acoustic coupling matrix being accurately known, Modak [15] provided a direct method of updating an undamped vibroacoustic system, in which the symmetry properties of mass matrices
,
and stiffness matrices
,
are preserved. However, they didn’t consider the spill-over phenomenon. With the spectral decomposition of a structured quadratic asymmetric pencil, Zhao [16] provided a set of parametric solutions of the MUP with no spill-over for the damped vibroacoustic system. And their method did not need the constraints that the prescribed eigenvectors should span the same subspaces as the original ones. However, these methods cannot be used to solve cases in which the vibroacoustic system has repeated eigenvalues. It is well known that a defective eigenvalue whose geometric multiplicity is less than its algebraic multiplicity, is usually more sensitive to perturbations than a semi-simple eigenvalue. Recently, Guo [17] considered the robust assignment for the repeated poles. Zhao [18] provided a sufficient solvable condition for the MUP with no spill-over for the quadratic asymmetric vibration system. To the best of our knowledge, the MUP with no spill-over for the undamped vibroacoustic system remains open in the following three cases: 1) the system has repeated eigenvalues; 2) the prescribed eigenvectors are chosen arbitrarily; and 3) the sufficient and necessary conditions that the updated system preserves no spill-over.
In this paper, we proposed a new updating method for the undamped vibroacoustic system with no spill-over. The main contributions of this paper are:
1) A sufficient and necessary condition that the updated undamped vibroacoustic system can preserve no spill-over is provided.
2) The parametric solutions of MUP-UVA are characterized by the system matrices and some prescribed eigenpairs without the assumptions that all the eigenvalues of original system and the newly measured eigenvalues are simple.
3) A gradient optimization algorithm for the minimum norm solution of the MUP-UVA is proposed.
2. Sufficient and Necessary Condition for No Spill-Over
Assume that all distinct eigenvalues of
are
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
, where
,
and
,
, each of which has algebraic multiplicity
, i.e.,
. Let
(4)
(5)
where
and
are Jordan canonical forms of
for
and
, respectively, and
is the matrix of right (generalized) eigenvectors corresponding to
. Clearly,
is a Jordan pair [19] of
if and only if
is nonsingular and the following matrix equation holds
(6)
Partition
and
as
(7)
where
,
are the representation of the eigenparis
which are to be reassigned. Let
be the real representation of the prescribed eigenpairs
.
With the notations above, the MUP-UVA can be mathematically reformulated as follows: given
with
being nonsingular,
, and
, find
and
such that
(8)
(9)
(10)
where , and
with
and
.
From (6), we can see that (10) can be equivalently rewritten as
(11)
which is the no spill-over property.
Lemma 1. [20] Let
,
be defined by (4) and (5), respectively. Partition
as
,
,
. There exist nonsingular matrices
and
of the form (2) such that (6) holds, if and only if
is nonsingular and there exists a nonsingular matrix
satisfying
(12)
And in this case, the matrices
and
can be expressed as
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
and it holds that
.
Theorem 2. Suppose that
defined by (4) and (5) is a Jordan pair of
. Let
(17)
Then the MUP-UVA can avoid spill-over, i.e., (11) is satisfied if and only if
and
jointly satisfy the following matrix equation:
(18)
where
(19)
with
.
Proof. (Necessity) Since
is a Jordan pair of
, we have
and
is nonsingular. It follows from Lemma 1 that there exists a nonsingular matrix
such that (12)-(16) hold. Since
, the matrix
must be of block diagonal form
, which satisfy
(20)
where
is given by (17). Substituting the partitions of
and
given by (7) into (13) and (14), we can obtain that
(21)
(22)
(23)
(24)
(25)
(26)
(27)
Pre-multiplying (26) and (21) by
and
, respectively, we can get
(28)
where
. Pre-multiplying (23) and (25) by
and
, respectively, we have
(29)
where
. Similarly, Pre-multiplying (22) and (24) by
and
, respectively, we can obtain that
(30)
where
. Transposing both sides of Equations (21), (27) and pre-multiplying by
and
, respectively, we can obtain that
(31)
where
. It is easy to verify that (28)-(31) can be rewritten as
(32)
where
and
Obviously,
since (11) holds. It follows from (32) that (18) is satisfied.
(Sufficiency.) Suppose that (18) holds. We can see from (32) that
, and it follows from the Sylvester’s rank inequality that
(33)
Since
,
and
are nonsingular, it follows from (20) that
(34)
It is easy to see from (33) that
, which implies that (11) holds.
Substituting (21)-(27) into (19) we have
(35)
Since
and
are nonsingular, which implies that the
matrix
and
matrix
are all of full column rank. We can see from (20) that
is nonsingular. It follows from (35) that
.
3. Solvability of the MUP-UVA
From the definitions of the matrices
and
, it is easy to verify that (18) is equivalent to the following two equations
(36)
(37)
where
is composed of the first and third columns of
and
is composed of the second and fourth columns of
. Without loss of generality, we assume that
and
. By Theorem 2, we have
. Let the QR decompositions of
and
be given by
(38)
where
and
are orthogonal matrices with
,
, and
,
are of full row rank. Next, we characterize the parametric solutions of the MUP-UVA in terms of
.
Theorem 3. Let
be defined by (7), and
be the real representation of the prescribed eigenpairs
. Suppose that
. Partition
and
as
and
, where
and
. If the
matrices
(39)
(40)
are nonsingular, then the
,
defined by
(41)
(42)
are real and solve the MUP-UVA. And in this case,
is the matrix of eigenvectors corresponding to
.
Proof. Let
(43)
where
. It follows from (36) that
(44)
which indicates that
. Furthermore,
(45)
where
can be further determined that (8) is satisfied. Let
, where
,
. we set
. Form the partition of
, we can see from (45) that
(46)
Substituting (46) into (8) gives
(47)
Since
is nonsingular, it follows from (47) that (41) is satisfied. Similarly, by the QR decomposition of
, we can prove that (42) holds.
In practice, we tend to seek the minimum norm solution which can be obtained by the following problem:
(48)
where
and
. Clearly, this is an unconstrained optimization problem which can also be solved by the MATLAB function fminunc. Next, we provide the gradient formula of
with respect to
.
Theorem 4. Suppose that the QR decompositions of
is given by (38). Let
, where
with
being defined by (39). Partition
as
, where
. Let
, where
(49)
(50)
Then the gradient
of
with respect to
is given by
(51)
Proof. From (41), we can obtain that
(52)
Recall that
is an
orthogonal matrix, then
can be rewritten as
(53)
Now, we establish the gradient
of
. Taking the differential of both sides of
, we can obtain that
(54)
Again, taking the differential of both sides of
we have
(55)
Note that
is nonsingular, then we have
(56)
From (56), we have
(57)
We now show that the second term of (57) can also be expressed in terms of
. Substituting the partition of
into
defined by (39), we have
(58)
It follows that
(59)
which implies that
(60)
From (57) and (60), we can obtain that
(61)
Similar to the proof of (61), the term
in (54) can be express by
as:
(62)
Substituting (54) and (61) into (62) gives
which implies that the gradient of
is given by (51). 
Similar to the proof of Theorem 4, we can prove the following theorem.
Theorem 5. Suppose that the QR decompositions of
is given by (38). Let
, where
with
being defined by (40). Partition
as
, where
. Let
, where
Then the gradient
of
with respect to
is given by
4. Numerical Examples
In this section, we give some numerical examples to verify the performance of Algorithm 1. All calculations were carried out using MATLAB R2023b. We compute the relative residuals of the updated system
as
Algorithm 1. Finding the minimum solution of the MUP-UVA.
(63)
and the relative residuals of the original system
as
(64)
Example 1. [15] In this example, we consider an undamped vibroacoustic system which is modified from a finite element model of a three-dimensional rectangular-box cavity backed by a flexible plate with
. In the raw data, the stiffness matrix
is singular, and the magnitude of the elements in the acoustic and structural matrices vary greatly. Those in the acoustic mass matrix
is of order
, while those in the structural mass matrix
is of orders
to
. Those in the acoustic stiffness matrix
is of order
, while in the structural stiffness matrix
is of order
. And those in the acoustic-structural coupling matrix
is of order
. Therefore, the eigenvalues of
in (3) are of order
. So we choose
and
and balance these matrices by setting
and
, where
. After this balancing, the matrices
and
are nonsingular, and the elements in the matrices are all of analogous order, and the eigenvalues are of normal order. All eigenvalues of the original system
are real.
Suppose that we update 8 eigenvalues of original system
to the following 4 pairs of complex conjugate eigenvalues
where
are of algebraic multiplicity two. We choose
randomly, and compute the coefficient matrices
,
,
and
by Algorithm 3.2 in [16], Theorem 3, fminunc and Algorithm 1, respectively. Numerical results are shown in Table 1, which means that all the prescribed eigenvalues are embedded perfectly into the updated system and the remaining eigenpairs of the original system are kept unchanged. We can also see from Table 1 that the errors of updates computed by the Algorithm 1 are smaller, i.e., the proposed algorithm in our paper is more efficient for the minimum solution of the PMP-UVA.
Table 1. Numerical result for Example 1.
Alg |
|
|
|
|
|
|
IT. |
CT. |
Algorithm 3.2 [16] |
362.4999 |
13.7043 |
2.4e + 03 |
120.5830 |
1.9176e−15 |
6.0511e−14 |
- |
1.1477 |
Theorem 3 |
210.7100 |
6.9986 |
63.3163 |
14.9833 |
2.9799e−17 |
1.1275e−14 |
- |
0.7024 |
fminunc |
101.6430 |
3.7118 |
36.3769 |
7.3134 |
2.0297e−17 |
9.5218e−15 |
8 |
30.2630 |
Algorithm 1 |
34.8851 |
3.2175 |
10.7382 |
2.06446 |
1.4559e−17 |
4.5676e−15 |
14 |
9.07322 |
Example 2. In this example, the matrices
and
are the same as in Example 1. We update
(varying from 2 to 38 at increment 4) eigenvalues to
that are generated randomly, and
need not to be simple. We apply fminunc and Algorithm 1, respectively, to get the updated systems.
Numerical results are illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 2. These results are rather close, or at least comparable, for all
. The relative errors of modifications on
,
,
and
are listed in Figures 3-6, respectively, which show the norms of the modifications computed by Algorithm 1 are smaller than those obtained by fminunc. Therefore, we can conclude that Algorithm 1 is more efficient for getting the minimum norm solutions of the MUP-UVA.
Figure 1.
of updated systems in Example 2.
Figure 2.
of updated systems in Example 2.
Figure 3. Relative errors of updates on
in Example 2.
Figure 4. Relative errors of updates on
in Example 2.
Figure 5. Relative errors of updates on
in Example 2.
Figure 6. Relative errors of updates on
in Example 2.
5. Conclusions and Suggestions
A new model updating method for the undamped vibroacoustic system with no spill-over is provided in this paper. Using the spectral decomposition of a structured asymmetric pencil, a sufficient and necessary condition is derived from which the updated undamped vibroacoustic system can preserve no spill-over. Finally, a gradient-based optimization algorithm for the minimum norm solution of the MUP-UVS is proposed. Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness the proposed algorithm.
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the Research Foundation of Education Department of Hunan Province (Grant No. 23A0266), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grand No. 2025JJ50034). Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis in Engineering (Grant No. 2017TP1017).
Notations and Assumptions
—eigenvalues of the model
.
—diagonal matrix of eigenvalues to be reassigned.
—matrix of eigenvectors corresponding to
.
—diagonal matrix of remaining eigenvalues to be kept unchanged.
—matrix of eigenvector corresponding to
.
—diagonal matrix of measured eigenvalues.
—matrix of eigenvectors corresponding to
.
—the set of all complex
matrices over
.
—the set of all real
matrices over
.
—the set of all symmetric matrices in
.
—the trace of matrix
.
—Frobenius norm of the matrix
.
In this paper, we will make the following assumptions.
(A1) The matrices
and
are nonsingular.
(A2) All the eigenvalues of
and
are nonzero.
(A3)
,
.