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Full Vehicle NVH
Access the Assemble, Analyze, NVH Tools, NVH Post, and Physics AI ribbons.
Post-Processing and Diagnostics
Define radiation conditions and create emissivity models.
Integrated Diagnostics
Calculate a response, perform contribution analysis, plot results, and perform diagnostic studies and study response changes.

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Full Vehicle NVH
Access the Assemble, Analyze, NVH Tools, NVH Post, and Physics AI ribbons.
- Assembly
  Learn how to create, open, import and save models.
- Analysis
  Set up the simulation model, materials, domains and boundaries.
- NVH Tools
- Prepare Module
  Create, organize and manage the CAE parts.
- Post-Processing and Diagnostics
  Define radiation conditions and create emissivity models.
  - Load an NVH Utility
  - Integrated Diagnostics
    Calculate a response, perform contribution analysis, plot results, and perform diagnostic studies and study response changes.
    - Integrated Diagnostics - Load Processing
      Load the sensitivity and force results from an OptiStruct *.pch or Nastran *.pch file to calculate the vehicle responses.
    - Integrated Diagnostics - Vehicle Response
      Calculate and plot responses specific to loadcases, including general loadcases, power train input, and road profile input from an OptiStruct or Nastran Punch file.
    - Integrated Diagnostics - Contributions Tab
      Perform contribution analysis for the vehicle response between sensitivity and forces, with the respective files loaded in the Loadcase Processing tab, the vehicle response calculated or loaded, and the loadcases selected in the Vehicle Response tab, Powertrain input, or Road Profile input.
    - Integrated Diagnostics - Diagnostics
      After plotting the response(s), assign diagnostic results by invoking the Diagnostic Results dialog.
    - Integrated Diagnostics - Study
      Perform a Partial sum response study by excluding the contributions from the selected contributors. The list of contributors available depends on the diagnostics done before arriving at the Study tab.
  - Modal Participation
    Plot modal/panel participation curves from an OptiStruct .h3d file or an MSC Nastran .f06/.pch file.
  - Grid Participation
    The Grid Participation utility allows you to plot panel grid participation results and then use advanced scaling contour capabilities to isolate key contributing areas.
  - Energy Distribution
    Visualize the distribution of energy within a full vehicle NVH model, as a way to understand what components are dominating the vehicle response.
  - Transfer Path Analysis
    Identifies the complex contribution of the excited structure through attachment points to a response in the responding structure.
  - Design Sensitivity Analysis
    Design sensitivity represents a change in response with respect to a change in a design variable, which is typically used for optimization.
  - Order Analysis
    Generates and post-processes engine order related data from an OptiStruct or Nastran frequency response analysis that contains either RPM-based loading subcases or order-based loading subcases.
  - Modal FRF
    Calculate a frequency response based on modal results.
  - Model Correlation
    The Model Correlation utility determines the degree of similarity or correlation between two sets of results.
  - Radiated Sound
    The Equivalent Radiated Sound utility post-processes the results of exterior structure-borne radiated sound.
  - Global Modes
    Identifies global modes from an OptiStruct or Nastran modal analysis.
  - Flow Induced Noise/General Signal Processing
    The General Signal Processing utility processes the time domain pressure results from CFD simulations and visualizes the results in both the time and frequency domain.
  - Green House Noise
    Post-process the pressure result of a vehicle panel obtained from ultraFluidX.
  - Mount Optimization
    Predicts powertrain rigid body mode frequencies and kinetic energy distribution, which play a critical role in optimizing the mount stiffness and layout configuration, by decoupling powertrain rigid body modes and reducing vibration transmission.
  - Optimization, RBDO
    Optimizes sensitive parameters for multiple sample analysis results using the RBDO or Deterministic approach.
  - Multiple Sample Analysis
    Post-process results from a Multiple Sample Analysis, including plotting a spread of responses (+/-95% and mean).
  - Deterministic Optimization
    Reads results from an OptiStruct optimization run and processes the results to review the overlay of the NVH responses, baseline versus optimized. Compare changes in the design variable values, baseline versus optimized.
  - Display Options
    Customize plots using the following options
  - Filter Contributors
    Filters contributors to a smaller set of data.
High Frequency NVH
High frequency NVH is an implementation of Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA), and is used to predict and analyze the vibration and acoustic response of complex dynamic systems.
Squeak and Rattle
Create and evaluate evaluation lines and optimize interfaces to eliminate squeak and rattle issues.

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Integrated Diagnostics

Calculate a response, perform contribution analysis, plot results, and perform diagnostic studies and study response changes.

The Integrated Diagnostics utility allows you to:

Calculate response based on sensitivity and forces (power train and road).
Perform contribution analysis for responses calculated using sensitivity and forces.
Plot and overlay response curves from an OptiStruct or Nastran punch file.
Perform diagnostic studies using the diagnostic result from a solver or sensitivity.
Perform study response changes.

Problem resolution in NVH is primarily about understanding the physical behavior of system dynamics. This is true with CAE as well as testing. A typical NVH diagnostic process flow and commonly used diagnostic results are shown here:

Figure 1. Typical NVH diagnostic process flow and results

The advantage in diagnosing an NVH problem using CAE is that a large amount of systems behavior data can be easily generated, which in many cases is difficult or impossible to obtain from hardware testing. In addition, CAE diagnostic results often represent mathematically derived cause and effect relationships to the related NVH responses, and therefore are more specific and effective in helping you identify solutions to your NVH problems.

Managing the large amount of CAE-generated diagnostic data can be complex and time consuming. The Integrated Diagnostics utility is designed to manage the various NVH diagnostic results and serve them based on user demands. This is accomplished by building connections between responses and their related diagnostic results, thereby automating NVH diagnostics. This allows you to focus on understanding the system dynamics and eliminate the data management burden.