The effect of concentrated masses on the response of a plate under a turbulent boundary layer excitation

This work is aimed at the numerical analysis of the vibration response of a plate, carrying one or more concentrated masses, under a stochastic and convective load. The pressure load is a typical turbulent boundary layer excitation (TBL) and the structural configurations reproduce common experimental situations because the concentrated masses can be considered similar to accelerometer sensors. The models adopt the Corcos TBL model and the concentrated masses are simulated with the Dirac singularity function. The approximations, introduced with the above assumptions on the concentrated masses, and the necessary numerical accuracy, in calculating the structural responses, are discussed. The added masses do not lead to a relevant modification of the global structural response but, on the contrary, the results show that the local effects can be relevant: the paper highlights the differences of the vibration responses from the analogous structural configurations under a stochastic load without convective characteristics.