A substructure approach for the midfrequency vibration of stochastic systems.

A novel substructure coupling technique based on the proper orthogonal decomposition method is presented for the midfrequency range vibration of linear dynamical systems with parameter uncertainty. For a given frequency band, the methodology permits the derivation of an adaptive basis for each subsystem and the construction of a reduced-order model of the global structure. The formulation is directed toward the efficient probabilistic characterization of model-based predictions in the framework of a stochastic finite element method.