Article Dans Une Revue Science Advances Année : 2022

Underwater metamaterial absorber with impedance-matched composite

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By using a structured tungsten-polyurethane composite that is impedance matched to water while simultaneously having a much slower longitudinal sound speed, we have theoretically designed and experimentally realized an underwater acoustic absorber exhibiting high absorption from 4 to 20 kHz, measured in a 5.6 m by 3.6 m water pool with the time-domain approach. The broadband functionality is achieved by optimally engineering the distribution of the Fabry-Perot resonances, based on an integration scheme, to attain impedance matching over a broad frequency range. The average thickness of the integrated absorber, 8.9 mm, is in the deep subwavelength regime (~λ/42 at 4 kHz) and close to the causal minimum thickness of 8.2 mm that is evaluated from the simulated absorption spectrum. The structured composite represents a new type of acoustic metamaterials that has high acoustic energy density and promises broad underwater applications.

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hal-03685715 , version 1 (02-04-2026)

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Sichao Qu, Nan Gao, Alain Tinel, Bruno Morvan, Vicente Romero-García, et al.. Underwater metamaterial absorber with impedance-matched composite. Science Advances , 2022, 8 (20), ⟨10.1126/sciadv.abm4206⟩. ⟨hal-03685715⟩
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