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Achieving sound attenuation across a broad frequency range while maintaining adequate ventilation remains a significant challenge in acoustic engineering, as there exists a rigid trade-off between attenuation ability and ventilation. In this Letter, we propose a double-layered microperforated meta-shells to serve as broadband acoustic ventilation barrier. Multiple scattering theory is first employed to characterize sound attenuation performance of the proposed design in terms of both sound absorption and transmission loss, which is not reported before. Experimental result demonstrates a good enhancement of absorption due to the insertion of inner shell with a specific perforation rate of micro cores. The mechanism can be attributed to the inter-cell coupling, which is further utilized to devise a different configuration by wrapping the meta-shell with porous sponge. It is found that adding an extra layer of sponge can further improve the low-frequency attenuation performance. The proposed broadband sound barrier with effective ventilation can find potential applications in architectural acoustics and office noise insulation.
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Defect‐Free Sound Insulator Using Single Metal‐Based Friction Stir Process Array
Metals are excellent conductors for phonon transportation such as vibration, sound, and heat. Generally, metal sound insulators require multimaterial structure or defects and unimetal sound insulators are challenging. Therefore, a design of a defect‐free sound insulator made by single alloys with multiple friction stir processes (FSPs) is proposed. Periodic friction stir processing can induce superlattice‐like local mechanical properties’ modifications. By experimental acoustic characterization, it is observed that FSP can introduce clear acoustic–elastic property contrast on an aluminum plate by the presence of stir zone and heat‐affected zones. In numerical simulations, the signature FSP‐induced property profile is periodically and parallelly arranged on a long aluminum plate. The transmission gap frequencies are present on the frequency spectrum with the sound propagation direction perpendicular to the FSP paths. Disorder offsets on FSP periodicity are further introduced. Anderson localization is found on a resonance frequency, which provides −11 dB sound reduction by an exponential decay. Due to the finite design length, the slight disorder can also enhance sound insulation in the periodic transmission gap frequency. With analysis and comparison with different configurations, the best performance in the models can achieve −30 dB sound insulation in the 350 mm‐long aluminum alloy plate with 14 parallel FSPs.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1741677
- PAR ID:
- 10430600
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Engineering Materials
- Volume:
- 25
- Issue:
- 19
- ISSN:
- 1438-1656
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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