Designing a tuned-shunt electrodynamic metamaterial in the presence of uncertainties
Time: 8:00 am
Author: Lawrence Singleton
Abstract ID: 1769
Resonant structural vibrations are a common source of disruptive noise, and suppressing these vibrations is often the most direct way to reduce the noise levels. Elastic metamaterials (EMMs) consist of distributed resonant substructures, at a scale which is small compared to the wavelength of vibration. This allows these materials to be used in applications where space is limited, and more traditional vibration suppression techniques would be impractical. Tuned resonators can be designed through selection of geometry or material properties, but an alternative approach, which requires significantly less prototyping, is through the use of shunted electrodynamic inertial actuators. In this paper, a novel electrodynamic metamaterial (EDMM) is proposed consisting of an array of mass-produced inertial actuators, each connected to a tuned shunt impedance. It is considered impractical to measure the dynamic and electrical parameters of a large number of actuators, and so the effect of uncertainties in the actuators is investigated on both the performance and the stability of the EDMM.
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Wave-based control for nonreciprocal acoustics using a planar array of secondary sources
Time: 8:20 am
Author: Joe Tan
Abstract ID: 3110
There has been significant interest in the design of nonreciprocal acoustic devices that allow acoustic waves to be perfectly transmitted in one direction, whilst the acoustic waves propagating in the opposite direction are blocked or reflected. Previously proposed nonreciprocal acoustic devices have broken the symmetry of transmission by introducing nonlinearities or resonant cavities. However, these nonreciprocal acoustic devices typically have limitations, such as signal distortions and the bandwidth over which nonreciprocal behaviour can be achieved is narrow. This paper will investigate how active control can be used to minimise the transmitted and reflected waves independently to achieve nonreciprocal sound transmission and absorption using a planar array of secondary sources in a two-dimensional environment. The advantage of the proposed active control system is that it is fully adaptable, which means that the directivity of nonreciprocal behaviour can also be reversed. The performance of the proposed wave-based active control system is investigated for a range of angles of incidence and its performance limitations are explored.
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