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ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adem.201700937
Keywords
Biot's poroelasticity; composite structures; diffuse field sound transmission loss; nanoporous materials; polyurea aerogel
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- NSF [CMMI-1661246, CMMI-1636306, ECCS-1307997]
- AFOSR [FA9550-14-1-0227]
- Nashi New Materials, Inc. China
- Army Research Office [W911NF-14-1-0369]
- Covestro LLC
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Recently, the authors have reported an exceptional normal incidence sound transmission loss characteristic for a class of low density, highly porous, and mechanically strong polyurea aerogels. Herein, a laminated composite comprising the organic low-density aerogels bonded with an inorganic compound (e.g., gypsum materials) is considered to investigate the constrained damping effects of the aerogels on the airborne sound insulation behavior of the composite using the standard chamber-based diffuse sound field measurements. Huge improvement in the sound transmission loss is obtained due to the use of aerogel without a significant increase in the overall weight and thickness of the composite panel (e.g., more than 10dB increase by reaching 40dB sound transmission loss at 2kHz after the implementation of only two 5mm-thick aerogel layers at bulk densities 0.15 and 0.25gcm(-3)). This uncommon behavior breaks the empirical Mass Law nature of the most conventional acoustic materials. In addition, an exact analytical time-harmonic plane-strain solution for the diffused wave propagation through the multilayered structure is provided using theories of linear elasticity and Biot's dynamic poroelasticity. The theoretical results are well supported by the experiments which can be utilized for the design of the future light-weight multifunctional composite structures.
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