STATISTICAL ENERGY ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURAL FUZZY

The concepts and derivations of the effects of a minor or secondary structure on the dynamics of a well defined major or primary structure have been recently presented as a “fuzzy structure” interacting with a deterministic one. On the face of it, this appears like a “halfway” SEA system in that one of the two systems is well defined while the other is probabilistic in the SEA sense. It is therefore interesting to see if a “full SEA” treatment of the system would lead to difference in, at least, some of the quoted results. The second, and more important, purpose of this paper is to relate the dynamics of potential minor structures to the properties of the “fuzzy” system, since these properties have been presented in some of the “fuzzy literature” in rather general terms. © 1995, Acoustical Society of America. All rights reserved.