Vibro-acoustic analysis of large space structures using the Hybrid FE-SEA method

A number of advances have been made recently in the development of a Hybrid method for rigorously coupling deterministic and statistical descriptions of the dynamics of a vibro-acoustic system. The method provides an efficient way to describe the response of a complex vibro-acoustic system across a broad frequency range. This paper provides an overview of various numerical and experimental validation studies that have been performed using the method.