0000000001056162
AUTHOR
Mathias Legrand
Added viscous damping in a finite-size microperforated plate within a nonlinear framework
Increasing the damping properties of a structure while limiting the addition of mass is a challenging task. Originally developed for their acoustic absorption capabilities, microperforated plates (MPP) are simple devices that can feature additional viscous damping at low frequencies. Dissipation arises in the boundary layers of the microperforations through viscous friction mechanisms induced by the relative motion between the solid and the fluid in which the MPP is immersed. This leads to sound absorption in an acoustic context and to an added viscous damping in a solid dynamics context. The added viscous damping exhibited by the MPP can be captured by considering adapted fluid-solid inter…
Damping performance of finite microperforated plates using multi-sized and spacial distributions of perforations
In the context of structural dynamics, recent works by the authors showed that microperforations can be used to mitigate vibration. Microperforated plates (MPPs) have been shown to exhibit substantial added damping stemming from fluid-structure interactions and visco-thermal effect mechanisms in the boundary layers of the perforations during relative motion between the solid and the fluid contained in the perforations. The added damping reaches a maximum for a characteristic frequency, depending only on the perforation diameter. Choosing the perforation diameter so that the characteristic frequency coincides with the natural frequency of the plate reduces the mode contribution of the plate.…