Vibration responses of a satellite subjected to acoustic excitation at launch stage

Abstract

Acoustic-vibration prediction at early stage of satellite development can contribute to their structural and layout design. In this paper, numerical models of a practical satellite subjected to acoustic excitation at launch stage were established. Then, the effect of acoustic condition was further analyzed. The results demonstrate that it is difficult to predict all-frequency-band acoustic response of complex satellites by an individual method, so a combined method was proposed in this paper. The damping loss factor model of panels with equipment was introduced to resolve the issue of on-board equipment modelling in the statistical energy analysis model. The service modules are extremely sensitive to acoustic excitation of about 354∼2828Hz, which should be highlighted when carrying a rocket with a high sound pressure level at this frequency band.