Manipulate Vibration Propagation by Anisotropic Honeycomb Structure

Abstract

As a new type of acoustic metamaterial, the pentamode material has extensive application prospect in controlling acoustic wave propagation because of its fluid properties. Firstly, a kind of pentamode material unit cell is designed, which is a two-dimensional honeycomb truss structure. Then, the asymptotic homogenization method is used to calculate static parameters of the unit cell, and also the influence of the geometric parameters and material composition of the unit cell on its mechanical properties is studied. Besides, based on transformation acoustics and the design method of the cylindrical cloak proposed by Norris, an acoustic cloak with isotropic density and gradient elastic modulus is constructed by periodically assembling the unit cell to guide the wave to bypass obstacles. Finally, the full displacement field analysis is carried out to prove the stealth effect of the acoustic cloak.