@article {Su:2017:0736-2935:434, title = "Modal coupling in the vibro-acoustic responses of submerged coupled shells", journal = "INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings", parent_itemid = "infobike://ince/incecp", publishercode ="ince", year = "2017", volume = "255", number = "7", publication date ="2017-12-07T00:00:00", pages = "434-440", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "0736-2935", url = "https://ince.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/ince/incecp/2017/00000255/00000007/art00050", author = "Su, Jinpeng and Qu, Yegao and Zhou, Kai and Chen, Yanhao and Hua, Hongxing", abstract = "This paper presents a modal decomposition method for the sound power radiated by a coupled shell structure submerged in an infinite heavy fluid, by which physical insight into the self- and mutual-modal radiations of the in-vacuo modes can be provided. A fully coupled FE/BE model is developed for a simplified submarine hull, which is composed of a coupled spherical-cylindrical-spherical shell, ring stiffeners and bulkheads. The interactions of different circumferential modes of the hull are examined and the self-modal contributions of the circumferential modes to the acoustic responses are presented. A further study on the modal coupling among the n=1 grouped modes (with rigid body modes included) is implemented to reveal the cross-modal coupling characteristics of the modes in the axial direction.", }