Investigation on the effect of MR elastomer based adaptive vibration absorbers on the radiated sound from circular elastic plates

M. Hemmatian; R. Sedaghati

doi:10.1117/12.2217731

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15 April 2016 Investigation on the effect of MR elastomer based adaptive vibration absorbers on the radiated sound from circular elastic plates

M. Hemmatian, R. Sedaghati

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Proceedings Volume 9799, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2016; 97992R (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217731
Event: SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the effect of using magnetorheological elastomer (MRE)-based adaptive tuned vibration absorbers (ATVA) on the sound transmission in an elastic plate. Sound transmission loss (STL) of an elastic circular thin plate is analytically studied. The plate is excited by a plane acoustic wave as an incident sound and the displacement of the plate is calculated using corresponding mode shapes of the system for clamped boundary condition. Rayleigh integral approach is used to express the transmitted sound pressure in terms of the plate’s displacement modal amplitude. In order to increase sound transmission loss of the plate, the MRE-based ATVA is considered. The basic idea is to be able to change the stiffness of the ATVA by varying magnetic field in order to reduce the transmitted acoustic energy of the host structure in a wide frequency range. Here, a MRE-based ATVA under the shear mode consisting of an oscillator mass, magnetic conductor, coils and MRE is investigated. In order to predict the viscoelastic characteristics of the field-dependent MRE based on the applied magnetic field, the double pole model is used. Finally, MRE-based ATVAs are integrated with the plate to absorb the plate energy with the aim of decreasing the transmitted sound power. Results show that plate with integrated MRE-based ATVAs suppresses the axisymmetric vibration of the plate and thus considerably improves the STL. Parametric studies on the influence of the position of MRE-based ATVAs and the effects of applied current on their performance are also presented.

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M. Hemmatian and R. Sedaghati "Investigation on the effect of MR elastomer based adaptive vibration absorbers on the radiated sound from circular elastic plates", Proc. SPIE 9799, Active and Passive Smart Structures and Integrated Systems 2016, 97992R (15 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2217731

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