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Practical realisation of an active acoustic metamaterial building block

Practical realisation of an active acoustic metamaterial building block
Practical realisation of an active acoustic metamaterial building block
Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) have been demonstrated as an alternative approach to achieving high levels of noise control using an array of subwavelength unit cells, exhibiting behaviour not seen in conventional materials. Specifically, active AMMs offer the potential for greater levels of broadband wave manipulation, tunability and adaptability. However, determining the optimal control source strengths that achieve broadband negative effective material properties is not straightforward. This study presents a practical method of designing an active system that directly minimises the effective material properties. The optimal control source strengths required for both single monopole and single dipole control sources to minimise the effective bulk modulus and the effective density respectively have been calculated via an optimisation procedure. The ability of the proposed active AMM building blocks to achieve broadband negative effective material properties is tested experientially through offline simulations using measured frequency responses. Interestingly, the optimised single monopole and optimised single dipole control sources achieve broadband negative effective bulk modulus and density respectively. However, when combining the two optimised control sources, the active control system only achieves bands of double negativity and, thus, only exhibits bands of negative refractive index.
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Tan, Joe
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Cheer, Jordan
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Daley, Stephen
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Cheer, Jordan
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Tan, Joe, Cheer, Jordan and Daley, Stephen (2020) Practical realisation of an active acoustic metamaterial building block. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 39 (1), 1-10, [045006]. (doi:10.1121/2.0001229).

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Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) have been demonstrated as an alternative approach to achieving high levels of noise control using an array of subwavelength unit cells, exhibiting behaviour not seen in conventional materials. Specifically, active AMMs offer the potential for greater levels of broadband wave manipulation, tunability and adaptability. However, determining the optimal control source strengths that achieve broadband negative effective material properties is not straightforward. This study presents a practical method of designing an active system that directly minimises the effective material properties. The optimal control source strengths required for both single monopole and single dipole control sources to minimise the effective bulk modulus and the effective density respectively have been calculated via an optimisation procedure. The ability of the proposed active AMM building blocks to achieve broadband negative effective material properties is tested experientially through offline simulations using measured frequency responses. Interestingly, the optimised single monopole and optimised single dipole control sources achieve broadband negative effective bulk modulus and density respectively. However, when combining the two optimised control sources, the active control system only achieves bands of double negativity and, thus, only exhibits bands of negative refractive index.

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Accepted/In Press date: March 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 April 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: This research was partially supported by an EPRSC iCASE studentship (Voucher number 17000146) and an EPSRC Prosperity Partnership (EP/S03661X/1). Publisher Copyright: © 2019 Acoustical Society of America. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Local EPrints ID: 440955
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/440955
ISSN: 1939-800X
PURE UUID: 45e2d311-fc49-42e8-b006-2d305abd39c0
ORCID for Jordan Cheer: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0552-5506

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Date deposited: 26 May 2020 16:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:22

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