Large two-dimensional sonic band gaps
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review E
- Vol. 60 (6), R6316-R6319
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.60.r6316
Abstract
We show that absolute sonic band gaps produced by two-dimensional square and triangular lattices of rigid cylinders in air can be increased by reducing the structure symmetry. In the case of square lattices, symmetry reduction is achieved by a smaller diameter cylinder placed at the center of each unit cell. For triangular lattices the reduction is achieved by decreasing the diameter of the cylinder at the center of the hexagons in the lattice. Theoretical predictions are also demonstrated experimentally: starting from a honeycomb lattice (using cylinders of 4 cm of diameter size and 6.35 cm nearest-neighbor distance) we have studied the transition to a triangular symmetry by putting rods with increasing diameter (in the range 0.6–4 cm) at the center. The greatest enhancement of the attenuation strength observed in transmission experiments has been obtained in the high frequency region for diameter ratios in the range 0.1–0.3.Keywords
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