Ivar KJELBERG
                                                                                                                                                    COMSOL Multiphysics(r) fan, retired, former "Senior Expert" at CSEM SA (CH)
                                                         
                            
                         
                                                
    
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                23 mai 2014, 05:00 UTC−4                            
                        
                        
                                                    Hi
The first information you get it from a "free-free" or a "fixed" eigenfrequency analysis of your device (in structural Physics).
You need to decide how you attach your device and to what, normally one considers an infinitely rigid base structure to which one attach any device with some representative attachment means.
With thee modes of the eigenfrequency analysis (that you might select by importance w.r.t. their mass participation ratio, but be aware that COMSOL still do not provide rotational mass (inertia) participation ratios, strangely, all other engineering FEM software do ...;), you can then decide for a stepping range for a frequency sweep analysis (typically 5-10 steps  between modes and some 10 steps directly around any relevant eigenfrequency modes, and load your device with i.e. a "body load" of given amplitude, or of a given power spectral density deduced amplitude you define in a function. 
Or you attach the device to a "rigid big mass" and apply a frequency dependent acceleration to the base
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Good luck
Ivar                                                
                                                
                            Hi
The first information you get it from a "free-free" or a "fixed" eigenfrequency analysis of your device (in structural Physics).
You need to decide how you attach your device and to what, normally one considers an infinitely rigid base structure to which one attach any device with some representative attachment means.
With thee modes of the eigenfrequency analysis (that you might select by importance w.r.t. their mass participation ratio, but be aware that COMSOL still do not provide rotational mass (inertia) participation ratios, strangely, all other engineering FEM software do ...;), you can then decide for a stepping range for a frequency sweep analysis (typically 5-10 steps  between modes and some 10 steps directly around any relevant eigenfrequency modes, and load your device with i.e. a "body load" of given amplitude, or of a given power spectral density deduced amplitude you define in a function. 
Or you attach the device to a "rigid big mass" and apply a frequency dependent acceleration to the base
--
Good luck
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                                1 decade ago                            
                            
                                23 mai 2014, 10:27 UTC−4                            
                        
                        
                                                    where i can search for the frequency sweep analysis?                                                
                                                
                            where i can search for the frequency sweep analysis?