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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.
Transfer Path Analysis
Identifies the complex contribution of the excited structure through attachment points to a response in the responding structure.
Traditional TPA Process (two-step TPA)

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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.
  - 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.
    - Traditional TPA Process (two-step TPA)
    - Perform TPA Analysis and Visualize Results
    - Transfer Path Analysis - Load
    - Transfer Path Analysis - Display
      Select a method to display the path contribution data.
    - Transfer Path Analysis - Study
      Perform a Partial sum, Modify path, Path overlay, or Randomization response study.
    - Transfer Path Details
  - 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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Traditional TPA Process (two-step TPA)

Step 1: Calculate attachment Forces of the system in an assembled state:

Assemble the system together and identify responses for which TPA analysis will be performed.
Calculate forces acting on the attachment DoFs, as well as the responses for comparison with TPA calculated ones.
Identify all attachment points through which load maybe transferred from the excited structure (Powertrain and Chassis in the picture above) to the responding structure (the Body). Each Degree of Freedom (DoF) at the attachment points becomes a transfer path.

Step 2: Calculate Transfer Functions (TF) of the responding structure in an isolated state:

Break the system at the attachment points, and perform Free Body analysis with the responding structure isolated, as if it is not connected to the excited structure.
Calculate the cross transfer functions (Tactile Transfer and Acoustic Transfer in the picture) between the attachment points to the response points, as well as the driving point transfer functions (Point Mobility in the picture), by applying a unit load to each attachment DoF.

Figure 1.