Abstract
To achieve low calculation-cost structural identification process, a numerical-based Inhomogeneous Wave Correlation (IWC) method is proposed in this paper as an extension to the experiment-based IWC. It consists, in a wave propagation framework also called wavenumber space (k-space), on identifying the propagation parameters such as the wavenumber and the spatial damping from the Frequency Response Functions (FRFs)computed using numerical simulations. The proposed method is applied to a sandwich beam with honeycomb cores in flexural vibration. Compared to its implementation based on experimentally-measured FRFs, the proposed numerical-based IWC proves to be an efficient tool for more inner structural parameter identification in wide frequency band with respect to the Mc Daniel method considered as reference.