A STUDY ON ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR OF POROELASTIC MEDIA BONDED BETWEEN LAMINATED COMPOSITE PANELS

Abstract

A STUDY ON THE ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR OF DOUBLE-WALLED PANELS, WITH SANDWICHED LAYER OF POROUS MATERIALS IS PRESENTED WITHIN CLASSICAL LAMINATED PLATE THEORY (CLPT) FOR LAMINATED COMPOSITE PANELS. FOR THIS PURPOSE, EQUATIONS OF WAVE PROPAGATION ARE FIRSTLY EXTRACTED BASED ON BIOT’S THEORY FOR POROUS MATERIALS, THEN THE TRANSMISSION LOSS (TL) OF THE STRUCTURE IS ESTIMATED IN A BROADBAND FREQUENCY. SECONDLY, TL COEFFICIENT OF THE STRUCTURE IS DETERMINED USING STATISTICAL ENERGY ANALYSIS (SEA). IN THE NEXT STEP, ACCURACY OF THE SOLUTION IS SHOWN BY A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE DATA OBTAINED FROM THESE TWO PRESENTED MODELS AND THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS AVAILABLE IN LITERATURE. FINALLY, THE EFFECTS OF PARAMETERS ON SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS OF DOUBLE POROUS COMPOSITE PANELS, ESPECIALLY AT A HIGH FREQUENCY RANGE, ARE DISCUSSED. IN ADDITION, THE RESULTS SHOW THAT MAXIMUM SOUND ENERGY IS TRANSFERRED BY THE WAVES FRAME (STRUCTURE BORN) DUE TO THE POROUS LAYER BONDED BETWEEN THE TWO COMPOSITE PANELS. THEREFORE, MATERIAL PARAMETERS THAT ARE PRINCIPALLY RELATED TO SOLID PHASE OF THE FOAM SUCH AS POISSON’S RATIO, BULK DENSITY AND BULK YOUNG’S MODULUS, HAVE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON THE TRANSMISSION LOSS. MEANWHILE, THE IMPACTS OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL PANELS AND COMPOSITE PLIES ARRANGEMENT ON SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED IN THIS PAPER.