Wide-band underwater acoustic absorption based on locally resonant unit and interpenetrating network structure

The interpenetrating network structure provides an interesting avenue to novel materials. Locally resonant phononic crystal （LRPC） exhibits excellent sound attenuation performance based on the periodical arrangement of sound wave scatters. Combining the LRPC concept and interpenetrating network glassy structure, this paper has developed a new material which can achieve a wide band underwater strong acoustic absorption. Underwater absorption coefficients of different samples were measured by the pulse tube. Measurement results show that the new material possesses excellent underwater acoustic effects in a wide frequency range.Moreover, in order to investigate impacts of locally resonant units,some defects are introduced into the sample. The experimental result and the theoretical calculation both show that locally resonant units being connected to a network structure play an important role in achieving a wide band strong acoustic absorption.

Modeling and Measurement of a Tunable Acoustoelastic System

Acoustoelastic coupling occurs when a hollow structure’s in-vacuo mode aligns with an acoustic mode of the internal cavity.The impact of this coupling on the total dynamic response of the structure can be quite severe depending on the similarity of the modal frequencies and shapes.Typically,acoustoelastic coupling is not a design feature,but rather an unintended result that must be remedied as modal tests of structures are often used to correlate or validate finite element models of the uncoupled structure.Here,however,a test structure is intentionally designed such that multiple structural and acoustic modes are well-aligned,resulting in a coupled system that allows for an experimental investigation.First,coupling in the system is identified using a measure termed the magnification factor.Next,the structural-acoustic interaction is measured.Modifications to the system demonstrate the dependency of the coupling on changes in the mode shape and frequency proximity.This includes an investigation of several practical techniques used to decouple the system by altering the internal acoustic cavity,as well as the structure itself.These results show that acoustic absorption material effectively decoupled the structure while structural modifications,in their current form,proved unsuccessful.Readily available acoustic absorptive material was effective in reducing the coupled effects while presumably adding negligible mass or stiffness to the structure.

Analysis on the influence factors of the acoustic absorption performance of porous fiber materials

Porous fiber materials are the most widely used acoustic absorption materials at present,and they have excellent acoustic absorption performance.This paper uses the finite element method to explore the factors affecting the acoustic absorption performance of porous fiber materials,including flow resistance,thickness of the porous fiber material,incidence angle,and back cavity thickness.Due to the complex acoustic absorption mechanism of porous fiber materials,an equivalent fluid model is used to simulate the acoustic absorption properties of the porous fiber materials.The correlation of acoustic absorption performance and the model of the back cavity was analyzed.An impedance tube test was implemented to verify the simulation results.

High-Temperature and Low-Frequency Acoustic Energy Absorption by a Novel Porous Metamaterial Structure

In this paper,we propose a novel porous metamaterial structure with an improved acoustic energy absorption performance at high-temperature and in the low-frequency range.In the proposed novel porous metamaterial structure,a porous material matrix containing periodically perforated cylindrical holes arranged in a triangular lattice pattern is applied,and additional interlayers of another porous material are introduced around these perforations.The theoretical model is established by adopting the double porosity theory for the interlayer and the cylindrical hole which form an equivalent inclusion and then applying the homogenization method to the porous metamaterial structure formed by the equivalent inclusion and the porous matrix.The temperature-dependent air and material parameters are considered in the extended theoretical model,which is validated by the finite element results obtained by COMSOL Multiphysics.The acoustic or sound energy absorption performance can be improved remarkably at very low frequencies and high temperature.Furthermore,the underlying acoustic energy absorption mechanism inside the unit-cell is investigated by analyzing the distribution of the time-averaged acoustic power dissipation density and the energy dissipation ratio of each constituent porous material.The results reveal that regardless of the temperature,the acoustic energy is mostly dissipated in the porous material with a lower airflow resistivity,while the acoustic energy dissipated in the porous material with a higher airflow resistivity also becomes considerable in the high-frequency range.The novel porous metamaterial structure proposed in this paper can be efficiently utilized to improve the acoustic energy absorption performance at high temperature.

3D Printed Ultra-thin Acoustic Metamaterials with Adaptable Low-frequency Absorption Performance

The inherent absorption frequency of traditional sound absorbers makes it difficult to solve the problem of acoustic wave removal in a changeable acoustic environment.In this study,acoustic absorption metamaterials(AAMs)with adaptable sound absorption performance were innovatively designed using the structural combination concept and fabricated via 3D printing.Accordingly,two coiled-up channels were combined in a single cell,which could effectively broaden the absorption bandwidth in a limited space.The longitudinal movement of the coiled-up channels endowed the tunable entire depth and internal cavity of the AAMs;thus,the sound absorption performance could be tailored accordingly.Through computational analysis and experimental verification,it was demonstrated that the depth of the AAM could be adjusted from 10 mm to 20 mm,and the corresponding absorption frequencies of the two channels ranged from 206 Hz to 179 Hz and 379 Hz to 298 Hz,respectively.In addition,the finite element results also indicate that the sound absorption bandwidth of AAMs could be further improved by the periodic arrangement of the units.This work opens a promising structural design approach for presenting a route toward acoustic devices with adaptable absorption performances.

Connection of acoustic absorption, reflection lossesand mode attenuation in shallow water

The relationship among acoustic absorption in the water, the boundaries losses on the surface and bottom and mode attenuation per cycle is presented, using the method of complex effective depth approximation. The equivalence of bottom refiection loss and mode attenuation per cycle, based on the work of Tindle [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66, 250-255 (1979)],is proved to give rise to several deviation in the range of middle low frequency (200 Hz <f < 2 kHz). Some of the results are that (1) corresponding to the small grazing angle, mode attenuation per cycle distance is equal to the sum of boundaryls reflection losses and the transmission loss per cycle distance of the waveguide geometric ray, (2) the method of complex effective depth approximation can give mode attenuation coefficient an explicit physical interpretation, which is similar to ray-mode theory.

An experimental method to design porous asphalts to account for surface requirements

Porous asphalts have supplementary surface and volumetric properties(e.g., acoustic absorption, drain ability, texture, and friction). These properties are linked to intrinsic factors(e.g., gradation and bitumen content) and extrinsic factors(e.g., traffic load), while their evolution over time depends on complex phenomena and processes that cause their deterioration and therefore affect safety, noise, and budget. Despite the decay of so many and complex properties over time, there is a lack of criteria to synergistically optimize the pavement system. Consequently, the objective of this study is to set up and validate a design method that synergistically addresses the most relevant properties of friction courses as a part of a pavement structure. The abovementioned method is based on indepth analyses of the literature and on laboratory and on-site tests carried for several years in order to evaluate the decay over time of the main surface and volumetric properties.Results show that (1) the level of fulfilment of single requirements varies over time and among the characteristics;(2) a sound optimization of the design of the mix in order to balance the different characteristics is needed;(3) further studies are needed because of uncertainty in predicting the main surface properties.