Achieving selective interrogation and sub-wavelength resolution in thin plates with embedded metamaterial acoustic lenses

作者：Semperlotti F^*; Zhu H

来源：Journal of Applied Physics, 2014, 116(5): 054906.

DOI：10.1063/1.4892017

In this study, we present an approach to ultrasonic beam-forming and high resolution identification of acoustic sources having critical implications for applications such as structural health monitoring. The proposed concept is based on the design of dynamically tailored structural elements via embedded acoustic metamaterial lenses. This approach provides a completely new alternative to conventional phased-array technology enabling the formation of steerable and collimated (or focused) ultrasonic beams by exploiting a single transducer. Numerical results show that the ultrasonic beam can be steered by simply tuning the frequency of the excitation. Also, the embedded lens can be designed to achieve sub-wavelength resolution to clustered acoustic sources, which is a typical scenario encountered in incipient structural damage.

• 出版日期2014-8-7