Acoustic Transmission Loss through

Periodic Elastic Structures

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Background and Motivation

In this model, two fluid domains are separated by a solid elastic
structure. An acoustic pressure wave impacts the structure resulting
in a reflected wave and a wave transmitted with a loss through the
structure. This model investigates the transmission loss through the
structure. The effects of incident angle, frequency, and damping are
studied.
Important features used: Acoustic-structure multiphysics interaction
with arbitrary incident angle, scattered field formulation, the
perfectly matched layer (PML), and periodic Floquet boundary
conditions.
Reference: S. Dey and J. J. Sirron, Proceedings of IMECE 2006, ASME
2006 Internal Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition,
Chicago, USA

Geometry and Operating Conditions

water
k

dL

solid

Incident plane wave

at angle , with wave
vector k.
Infinite periodic
structure
Infinite water domain

water
x
Modeled infinite
periodic domain
Lx

Floquet periodic condition

Model Setup
The model is solved using the Acoustic-Solid Interaction, Frequency
Domain multiphysic interface of the Acoustics Module.
The interface provides pre-defined multiphysics couplings between solids
and acoustic domain as well as periodic Floquet conditions.
Add two integration operators to determine the average pressure at the
top and bottom side of the solid. At the top both the incident
(background) acpr.p_b and the reflected (scattered) acpr.p_s pressures are
defined (because of the addition of the background pressure field option).
On the bottom only the transmitted total field exists as acpr.p_b=0.
Also add variables that define the incident, reflected and transmitted
pressures along with the transmission loss TL:
T = 20log(| / |)

Results: Reflected and transmitted pressure

The curves match the theoretical curves in the reference: S. Dey and J. J. Sirron, Proceedings of
IMECE 2006, ASME 2006 Internal Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Chicago, USA

Results: Transmission loss

Results
Incident (background)
pressure for an angle of
incidence of 11 deg.

Results
Scattered (above) and
transmitted (below)
pressure for an angle of
incidence of 11 deg.

Results
Total pressure field for
an angle of incidence of
11 deg.

Results
Total pressure and
deformation
amplitude for an
angle of incidence
of 40 deg.