Sound insulation and energy harvesting based on acoustic metamaterial plate

Badreddine Assouar; Mourad Oudich; Xiaoming Zhou

doi:10.1117/12.2080752

23 March 2015 Sound insulation and energy harvesting based on acoustic metamaterial plate

Badreddine Assouar, Mourad Oudich, Xiaoming Zhou

Proceedings Volume 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015; 94380U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080752
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The emergence of artificially designed sub-wavelength acoustic materials, denoted acoustic metamaterials (AMM), has significantly broadened the range of materials responses found in nature. These engineered materials can indeed manipulate sound/vibration in surprising ways, which include vibration/sound insulation, focusing, cloaking, acoustic energy harvesting …. In this work, we report both on the analysis of the airborne sound transmission loss (STL) through a thin metamaterial plate and on the possibility of acoustic energy harvesting. We first provide a theoretical study of the airborne STL and confronted them to the structure-borne dispersion of a metamaterial plate. Second, we propose to investigate the acoustic energy harvesting capability of the plate-type AMM.

We have developed semi-analytical and numerical methods to investigate the STL performances of a plate-type AMM with an airborne sound excitation having different incident angles. The AMM is made of silicone rubber stubs squarely arranged in a thin aluminum plate, and the STL is calculated at low-frequency range [100Hz to 3kHz] for an incoming incident sound pressure wave. The obtained analytical and numerical STL present a very good agreement confirming the reliability of developed approaches. A comparison between computed STL and the band structure of the considered AMM shows an excellent agreement and gives a physical understanding of the observed behavior. On another hand, the acoustic energy confinement in AMM with created defects with suitable geometry was investigated. The first results give a general view for assessing the acoustic energy harvesting performances making use of AMM.

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Badreddine Assouar, Mourad Oudich, and Xiaoming Zhou "Sound insulation and energy harvesting based on acoustic metamaterial plate", Proc. SPIE 9438, Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems 2015, 94380U (23 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2080752

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