Abstract
The statistical energy analysis (SEA) method has been used very successfully in the prediction of structural response to reverberant acoustic fields. This paper will extend the method to the free field acoustic excitation. The coupling loss factor (an important parameter in the SEA method) between the plate and the exciting acoustic field was derived. The analytical results compare reasonably well with test data obtained during the Space Shuttle (OV‐101) acoustic test conducted at Dryden Flight Research Center. In that test two F‐104 jets were used as sound sources. Accelerometer readings were obtained both at the cargo bay door and the side wall. Also, the correlation constants of the pressure field were obtained from the test.
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