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/Bloch 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
• Incident plane wave at
angle , with wave vector k. water
• Infinite periodic structure k

• Infinite water domain
dL k solid

y
water
x

Modeled infinite periodic domain

Floquet periodic condition Lx

 Model Setup
• The model equations are solved using the Acoustic-Solid Interaction,
Frequency Domain multiphysics 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:

T𝐿 = 20log⁡(|𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 /𝑝𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 |)
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.