An overview of the MCF plug-in

The first plug-in uses a script to recover the fluid-structure coupled MCF (${\varphi }_{\alpha m}{q}_{\alpha }$ for each mode $\alpha$ at a response point m for a range of frequencies) based on the mode shapes, ${\varphi }_{\alpha }$, (from the frequency step) and the modal amplitudes, $q_{\alpha }$, (from the steady-state dynamic step with modal output requested) in the output database. The plug-in sums these partial pressures and compares them against the Abaqus total. In addition, the script creates a ranking criterion based on a sensitivity analysis.

The second plug-in uses a script that displays polar or vector plots or bar graphs that allow you to identify the most significant modes at each excitation frequency.