This work is focused on the compressive behavior in the elastic region of a composite material made out of stalk-based maize fiber and unsaturated polyester resin polymer as matrix with methyl ethyl ketone peroxide as a catalyst and Cobalt Octoate as a promoter [1]. Deformation and fracture behavior are investigated by using Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM). XFEM enables the accurate approximation of solutions with jumps, discontinuities or general high gradients across interfaces between the fibers and the matrix [2], [3].

The results highlight and interpret the testing and properties of natural fibre composites including, non-destructive and high strain rate testing. The potential of this material for noise enclosures is investigated by using a coupled method cnoidalExtended Finite Element Method (XFEM). XFEM enables the accurate approximation of solutions with jumps, discontinuities or general high gradients across interfaces. The dissipation of the sound power into a plate/cavity system shows the efficiency of this composite to achieve noise reduction better to that obtained at low and higher frequencies with traditional foams.

Transformation acoustics opens a new avenue towards the fabrication of a new class of sonic composites with scatterers made of auxetic materials embedded in the epoxy matrix. The design of the acoustic scatterers is based on the property of Helmoltz equations to be invariant under coordinate transformations, i.e. a specific spatial compression is equivalent to a variation of the material parameters in the original space. In this paper, the noise suppression for a wide full band-gap of frequencies is discussed for spherical shell scatterers made of auxetic materials.