A method for improving wave suppression ability of acoustic black hole plate in low-frequency range

The acoustic black holes (ABH) with the power-law profile are applied in many fields, such as vibration control, energy collection, etc. It is widely known that the ABH only works above the cut-on frequency. However, few studies improve the vibration suppression performance of acoustic black hole structures below the cut-on frequency. This paper proposes shunt damping to improve the wave suppression ability of an ABH plate in the low-frequency range. The ABH plate with shunt damping obeys the Kirchhoff-Love plate theory. Based on the Hamiltonian principle, the modified Fourier series is selected as the shape function, and the natural frequency of the ABH plate is calculated by the energy method. Compared with the finite element method results, the correctness of this method is verified. Further, comparing the vibration characteristics of the ABH plate with those of the uniform thickness plate, it can be obtained that the ABH plate has excellent vibration damping performance in high frequency but a poor effect in low frequency. Therefore, a shunt damping with blocking circuits is pasted on one side of the central area of the ABH and successfully suppresses four resonate formants in the low-frequency band. Finally, the high-frequency vibration characteristics of the ABH plate with shunt damping are improved by increasing the thickness of the ordinary damping layer. This paper proposes a shunt damping ABH plate composite structure with excellent vibration suppression performance in both the high-frequency and low-frequency range, providing a new idea for the application of two-dimensional ABH plate structures in vibration control.

Automated summary

This study proposes a new method to improve the vibration suppression performance of acoustic black hole (ABH) structures in the low-frequency range by adding shunt damping. The results show that the ABH plate has excellent vibration damping performance at high frequencies but is less effective at low frequencies. By using shunt damping, the researchers successfully suppressed four resonate formants in the low-frequency band and improved the high-frequency vibration characteristics by increasing the thickness of the damping layer.