SHRIMP zircon age of the high aeromagnetic anomaly zone in central Tarim Basin and its geological implications

In order to get the correct isotopic age, SHRIMP U-Pb zircon date of Precambrian hornblende granite in Well TD2, located in the central aeromagnetic belt in the eastern of the Tarim basin, was carried out. The result showed a dependable age of 1908.2 ± 8.6 Ma, which demonstrated that the granite pluton is the result of the magmatic activity in early Palaeoproterozoic. It is indicated that the central aeromagnetic belt across Tarim basin, divided it into north and south block, is formed before Neoproterozoic by a large scale tectonothermal events based on the seismic and drilling date. The Tarim continent may have different age and type basements formed the united crystalline basement in Precambrian. This result has yielded new intraplate evidence to constrain the relation between the Tarim plate and the Colombia supercontinent.

Design of low-frequency circular metastructure isolators with high-load-bearing capacity

Traditional vibration isolation structures cannot work effectively for low-frequency vibration under heavy loads,due to the inherent contradiction between the high-static and lowdynamic stiffness of these structures.Although the challenge can be effectively addressed by introducing a negative stiffness mechanism,the existing structures inevitably have complex configurations.Metastructures,a class of man-made structures with both extraordinary mechanical properties and simple configurations,provide a new insight for low-frequency vibration isolation technology.In this paper,circular metastructure isolators consisting of some simple beams are designed for low-frequency vibration,including a single-layer isolator and a double-layer isolator,and their static and dynamic characteristics are studied,respectively.For the static characteristic,the force–displacement and stiffness–displacement curves are obtained by finite element simulation;for the dynamic characteristic,the vibration transmissibility curves are obtained analytically and numerically.The result shows that the circular nonlinear single-layer isolator has excellent lowfrequency isolation performance,and the isolation frequency band will decrease about 20 Hz when the isolated mass is fixed at 1.535 kg,compared with a similar circular linear isolator.These static and dynamic properties are well verified through experiments.Our work provides an innovative approach for the low-frequency vibration isolation and has wide potential applications in aeronautics.

Bandgap formation and low-frequency structural vibration suppression for stiffened plate-type metastructure with general boundary conditions

Metastructures with unique mechanical properties have shown attractive potential application in vibration and noise reduction.Typically,most of the metastructures deal with the vibration bandgap properties of infinite structures without considering specific boundary condition and dynamic behaviors,which cannot be directly applied to the engineering structures.In this research,we design a Stiffened Plate-type Metastructure(SPM)composed of a plate with periodic stiffeners and cantilever beam-type resonators subjected to general boundary conditions for low-frequency vibration suppression.The effects of boundary conditions and the number and orientation of the stiffeners on Locally Resonant(LR)type bandgap properties in SPM are further investigated.An analytical modeling framework is developed to predict the bandgap formations and vibration behaviors of SPMs in finite-size configuration.The governing equations of the SPM reinforced by various arrangements of stiffeners are derived based on the first-order shear deformation theory and Hamilton’s principle,and a Fourier series combined with auxiliary functions is employed to satisfy the arbitrary boundary conditions.Finite element analysis and experimental investigations of vibration behaviors for the SPM are carried out to validate the accuracy and reliability of the present analytical model.For practical designs of the SPMs with specific boundary conditions,it is found that there exist optimal numbers of stiffeners and resonators which can produce the significant LR-type bandgap behaviors.Furthermore,various arrangements of stiffeners and resonators are explored for different boundary conditions by breaking the requirement of spatially periodicity.It is shown that for the designed SPM,the vibration modes of its host structure should be considered to widen the frequency range in which the resonators transfer and store energy,and hence improve the performance of low-frequency vibration suppression.The present work can provide a significant theoretical guidance for the engineering application of metamaterial stiffened structures。

Sound radiation attenuation by circular total-reflection elastic metasurface composed of subunits with cubic profiles

Utilizing metamaterials or acoustic black holes(ABHs)to control wave propagation and then to realize vibration control and sound radiation attenuation is a hot topic in recent years.However,using elastic metasurfaces that possess similar wave manipulation abilities with metamaterials and ABHs to attenuate sound radiation has not been reported yet.In this paper,a circular total-reflection elastic metasurface(CTREM)composed of subunits with cubic profiles similar with ABHs is proposed to realize vibration isolation and achieve broadband sound radiation attenuation of a plate below the cut-on frequency of the ABH.Compared with the corresponding bare plate and the plate containing a single ABH with a conventional design,the sound radiation efficiencies of the CTREM plate within and outside the vibration isolation band are both substantially attenuated.This phenomenon can be attributed to two distinct mechanisms:the total reflection of flexural waves caused by vibration isolation,and the local resonances of subunits.Analyses of the wavenumber spectra obtained from normal vibration velocities of the CTREM plate,both experimentally and numerically,along with the supersonic intensity patterns,reveal that the confined vibration energies are subsonic components localized within ineffective sound radiation areas.This,in turn,reduces the coupling strength of sound and vibration,thereby significantly attenuating sound radiation efficiency.The proposed CTREM provides a lossless and lightweight method for sound radiation attenuation.