Creating acoustic infinite sections

Acoustic infinite sections are used to define the section properties of two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and axisymmetric regions that model an acoustic medium undergoing small pressure changes. You use acoustic infinite sections when you want to improve the accuracy of analyses involving exterior domains. You must create a reference point to indicate the reference node required by acoustic infinite elements. For more information, see Infinite elements.

This task shows you how to:

Specify acoustic infinite section properties

  1. From the main menu bar, select SectionCreate.

    A Create Section dialog box appears.

    Tip: You can also click Create in the Section Manager or select the create section tool in the Property module toolbox.

  2. Enter a section name. For more information on naming objects, see Using basic dialog box components.

  3. Select Other as the section Category and Acoustic infinite as the section Type, and click Continue.

    The section editor appears.

  4. Select an acoustic medium material for the acoustic infinite section. If desired, click to create a material; see Creating or editing a material, for more information.

  5. Enter a value for the section Plane stress/strain thickness. If the section will be used with a two-dimensional region, you must specify the section thickness. Abaqus/CAE ignores the thickness information if it is not needed for the region type.

  6. To define the number of ninth-order polynomials that will be used to resolve the variation of the acoustic field in the infinite direction, click the arrow to the right of the Order field to decrease the number of polynomials that will be used (applies only to Abaqus/Explicit analyses). The default value is 10, which is the value always used in Abaqus/Standard.

  7. Click OK to save your changes and to close the section editor.

Create a reference point for use with acoustic infinite elements