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A Virtual Acoustic Black Hole on a Cantilever Beam
An acoustic black hole (ABH) consists of a tapered structure whose thickness
follows a power-law profile. When attached to a host structure, an ABH
localizes and traps the vibrational energy, which can then be dissipated
through, e.g., a damping layer. However, effective vibration mitigation is
known to occur only above a cut-on frequency which is inversely proportional to
the length of the tapered structure. In this context, the main thrust of this
paper is to replace a mechanical ABH by a digital controller so as to create a
so-called virtual acoustic black hole (VABH), thus, freeing the ABH from
possible mechanical constraints (e.g., compactness, manufacturing and fatigue
issues). The proposed VABH is first detailed theoretically. The salient
features and performance of the VABH are then demonstrated both numerically and
experimentally using a cantilever beam as a host structure. Eventually, it is
shown that the VABH significantly enlarges the applicability of the concept of
an ABH
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Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102167/1/ccd24884.pd
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