A bilayer membrane acoustic metamaterial was proposed to overcome the influence of the mass law on traditional acoustic materials and obtain a lightweight thin-layer structure that can effectively isolate low frequenc...A bilayer membrane acoustic metamaterial was proposed to overcome the influence of the mass law on traditional acoustic materials and obtain a lightweight thin-layer structure that can effectively isolate low frequency noise. The finite element analysis（FEA） results agree well with the experimental results.It is proved that the sound transmission losses（STLs） of the proposed structures are higher than those of same surface density acoustic materials. The introduction of the magnetic mass block is different from the traditional design method, in which only a passive mass block is fixed on the membrane. The magnetic force will cause tension in the membrane, increase membrane prestress, and improve overall structural stiffness. The effects of the geometry size on the STLs are discussed in detail. The kind of method presented in this paper can provide a new means for engineering noise control.展开更多
Actively tunable acoustic metamaterials have attracted ever increasing attention.However,their tunable frequency range is quite narrow(tens of Hz)even under ultrahigh applied voltage(about 1,000 V).Here,we report a su...Actively tunable acoustic metamaterials have attracted ever increasing attention.However,their tunable frequency range is quite narrow(tens of Hz)even under ultrahigh applied voltage(about 1,000 V).Here,we report a superbroad-band actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with the bandwidth over 400 Hz under a low voltage.In the actively tunable acoustic metamaterials,the acoustic membrane is a laminated nanocomposite consisting of a poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET)and super-aligned carbon nanotube(CNT)drawn from CN T forest array.The laminated nanocomposite membrane exhibits adjustable acoustic properties,whose modulus can be adjusted by applying external electric field.The maximum frequency bandwidth of PET/CN T nanocomposite membrane reaches 419 Hz when applying an external DC voltage of 60 V.Our actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with superbroad-band and lightweight show very promising foreground in noise reduction applications.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11474230)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (3102016QD056) for financial support
文摘A bilayer membrane acoustic metamaterial was proposed to overcome the influence of the mass law on traditional acoustic materials and obtain a lightweight thin-layer structure that can effectively isolate low frequency noise. The finite element analysis（FEA） results agree well with the experimental results.It is proved that the sound transmission losses（STLs） of the proposed structures are higher than those of same surface density acoustic materials. The introduction of the magnetic mass block is different from the traditional design method, in which only a passive mass block is fixed on the membrane. The magnetic force will cause tension in the membrane, increase membrane prestress, and improve overall structural stiffness. The effects of the geometry size on the STLs are discussed in detail. The kind of method presented in this paper can provide a new means for engineering noise control.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.52002201,52008223,51772063)Open Fund of innovation institute for Sustainable Maritime Architecture Research and Technology,Qingdao University of Technology(Nu.2020-035)Shenzhen Science and Technology Program(No.KQTD2016112814303055).
文摘Actively tunable acoustic metamaterials have attracted ever increasing attention.However,their tunable frequency range is quite narrow(tens of Hz)even under ultrahigh applied voltage(about 1,000 V).Here,we report a superbroad-band actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with the bandwidth over 400 Hz under a low voltage.In the actively tunable acoustic metamaterials,the acoustic membrane is a laminated nanocomposite consisting of a poly(ethylene terephthalate)(PET)and super-aligned carbon nanotube(CNT)drawn from CN T forest array.The laminated nanocomposite membrane exhibits adjustable acoustic properties,whose modulus can be adjusted by applying external electric field.The maximum frequency bandwidth of PET/CN T nanocomposite membrane reaches 419 Hz when applying an external DC voltage of 60 V.Our actively tunable acoustic metamaterials with superbroad-band and lightweight show very promising foreground in noise reduction applications.
