Quantitative comparison of the accuracy of the 3rd order numerical acceleration method with other numerical methods

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Document Type : Research Note

Authors

• masoud mahmoudabadi ¹
• fateme hatefi ardakani ²
• fateme ansari ²

¹ qom

² univercity of qom

10.22067/jfcei.2024.85785.1276

Abstract

In this article, the 3rd order numerical acceleration method is presented. The basic assumption of this method is that the acceleration changes in the time interval Δt is in the form of a third degree polynomial, and as a result, its displacement equation, which is obtained by integrating the acceleration equation twice, is a fifth degree curve that has six The coefficient is unknown. To quantitatively compare the error rate of this method with other numerical methods, a linear one-degree-of-freedom system with a frequency of one hertz and specific dampings of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20% was considered. Then, sinusoidal harmonic loading with a specific frequency was applied to this system. The exact answer of this system is available in the books of dynamics of structures. The ratio of the loading frequency to the natural vibration frequency of the system varied from 0.01 to 3 with an increase of 0.01. Using numerical methods of second-order acceleration and third-order acceleration and other popular methods, and using the root mean square error criterion, they were quantitatively compared with each other. The comparison was made for ten Δt, the smallest of which was equal to 0.02 seconds and the largest was equal to 0.20 seconds. The amount of error reduction for the third-order acceleration method was insignificant compared to the second-order acceleration method. The lowest error was related to the upgraded Jennings method, in which the error rate was much lower than other known methods.

Keywords

• 3rd order acceleration method
• weighted function
• weighted residual integral
• root mean square error
• curve fitting

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