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Zhaoyong Sun1, Han Jia1, Yi Chen2
1Key Laboratory of Noise and Vibration Research, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 21 North 4th Ring Road, Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
In this paper, an impedance matching underwater acoustic bend with pentamode microstructure is designed. The proposed bend is assembled by pentamode lattice. The effective density and compressive modulus of each unit cell can be tuned simultaneously, which are modulated to guarantee both the bending effect and high transmission. The standard deviations (SDs) of transmitted phase are calculated to quantitatively evaluate the degree of the distortion of the transmitted wavefront, while the transmission is calculated to appraise the degree of acoustic impedance matching. The low SDs and high transmission indicate that the designed bend has a nice broadband bending effect and is impedance-matched to water. This design has potential applications in underwater communication and underwater detection.
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