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Design of continuously graded elastic acoustic cloaks
Clay Sanders1, Wilkins Aquino1, Timothy Walsh2
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA.
Abstract:
This letter demonstrates the design of continuously graded elastic cylinders to achieve passive cloaking from harmonic acoustic excitation, both at single frequencies and over extended bandwidths. The constitutive parameters in a multilayered, constant-density cylinder are selected in a partial differential equation-constrained optimization problem, such that the residual between the pressure field from an unobstructed spreading wave in a fluid and the pressure field produced by the cylindrical inclusion is minimized. The radial variation in bulk modulus appears fundamental to the cloaking behavior, while the shear modulus distribution plays a secondary role. Such structures could be realized with functionally-graded elastic materials.
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