Vibration Reduction Assessment of Layered Acoustic Metamaterial

Acoustic meta-materials offer an approach to reducing the vibration and noise transmission through layered panels. In this paper, the investigation of constructed meta-material for reduction of low-frequency vibration and noise is a major concern. The key concept underlying this approach is to construct the metamaterial as a highly-distributed system of tuned point masses that introduce instead of low resonance frequency one or more bands of higher frequency. They can be then successfully damped with passive methods. Using the modes method, a metamaterial system with distributed point masses integrated into the honeycomb core was designed to be a representative layered panel. To determine the dynamic response of the global sandwich panel, the metamaterial system was tested for 70 Hz and 120 Hz excitation. The obtained results confirm the possibility of tuning the considered layered meta-material to the excitation frequency and shifting low frequencies towards higher frequencies.