Reconfigurable origami sonic barriers with tunable bandgaps for traffic noise mitigation

Thota, Manoj; Wang, K. W.

doi:10.1063/1.4991026

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“…In this case, folding offers a pathway to tailor the underlying periodicity to achieve tunable acoustic behaviors. For example, rigid‐folding of Miura‐ori sheet can arrange the attached inclusions into square, hexagonal, rectangular, and asymmetrical patterns, thus significantly tailor and frequency spectrum of the corresponding acoustic bandgaps . Such and similar features have been utilized for noise mitigation, wave guiding and focusing …”

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Architected Origami Materials: How Folding Creates Sophisticated Mechanical Properties

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devices, [26,27] to small-scale nano- [28][29][30] and DNA origamis. [31] A common theme in these studies is to exploit the sophisticated shape transformations from folding. For example, an origami robot is typically fabricated in a 2D flat configuration and then folded into the prescribed 3D shape to perform its tasks. The origamis have been treated essentially as linkage mechanisms in which rigid facets rotate around hingelike creases (aka "rigid-folding origami"). Elastic deformation of the constituent sheet materials or the dynamics of folding are often neglected. Such a limitation in scope indeed resonates the origin of this field, that is, folding was initially considered as a topic in geometry and kinematics.However, the increasingly diverse applications of origami require us to understand the force-deformation relationship and other mechanical properties of folded structures. Over the last decade, studies in this field started to expand beyond design and kinematics and into the domain of mechanics and dynamics. Catalyzed by this development, a family of architected origami materials quickly emerged (Figure 1). These materials are essentially assemblies of origami sheets or modules with carefully designed crease patterns. The kinematics of folding still plays an important role in creating certain properties of these origami materials. For example, rigid folding of the classical Miura-ori sheet induces an in-plane deformation pattern with auxetic properties (aka negative Poisson's ratios). [32,33] However, elastic energy in the deformed facets and creases, combined with their intricate spatial distributions, impart the origami materials with a rich list of desirable and even unorthodox properties that were never examined in origami before. For example, the Ron-Resch fold creates a unique tri-fold structure where pairs of triangular facets are oriented vertically to the overall origami sheet and pressed against each other. Such an arrangement can effectively resist buckling and create very high compressive load bearing capacity. [34] Other achieved properties include shape-reconfiguration, tunable nonlinear stiffness and dynamic characteristics, multistability, and impact absorption.Since the architected origami materials obtain their unique properties from the 3D geometries of the constituent sheets or modules, they can be considered a subset of architected cellular solids or mechanical metamaterials. [35][36][37][38][39] However, the origami materials have many unique characteristics. The rich geometries of origami offer us great freedom to tailor targeted Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, is not only an inspiring technique to create sophisticated shapes, but also a surprisingly powerful method to induce nonlinear mechanical properties. Over the last decade, advances in crease design, mechanics modeling, and scalable fabrication have fostered the rapid emergence of architected origami materials. These materials typically consist of folded origami sheets or modules with intricate 3D geomet...

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“…Numerical predictions may characterize a design for a certain scale, which may not be easily achievable experimentally. For instance, reconfigurable origami barriers for traffic noise reduction [49] were scaled down to one-seventh the original size, promoting greater experimental feasibility and efficiency in terms of power and cost. The six common AMM and PC structures shown in Figure 1 represent very broad categories of designs.…”

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Fabricating and Assembling Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

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Acoustic metamaterials (AMMs) and phononic crystals (PCs) have garnered significant attention in recent years, as part of the collective driving force toward creating intelligent acoustic devices. Advancements in these fields have greatly enhanced the way we manipulate sound waves through transmission, reflection, refraction, absorption, diffraction, or attenuation. In the past decade, AMMs and PCs have enabled novel applications such as acoustic lensing, [1-3] cloaking, [4] levitation, [5] and holography. [6-8] While these exotic structures have been well explored through theoretical and numerical analysis, [9-13] their physical realization is an important topic that is rarely discussed. Considering the ubiquity of sound and the powerful capabilities of AMMs and PCs, the impact of these acoustic structures could be phenomenal. Across the full acoustic frequency spectrum, practical applications such as noise cancellation, [14] underwater detection, [15] medical imaging, [16] and energy harvesting [17,18] could benefit key sectors in our society like healthcare, well-being, environmental sustainability, and security. Moreover, AMMs and PCs can help to usher in next-generation technologies for personalized, immersive multisensory [19-22] experiences. The manipulation of sound can enrich the way we communicate and interact with our surroundings, not simply through audio, but also through tactile sensations. In the future, AMMs and PCs could be used in virtual reality (VR) setups, [23] compact wearable devices, and dynamic midair volumetric displays [24] that are controllable and capable of providing haptic feedback. [25] Beyond the notion that AMMs and PCs can replace phased arrays, they could readily complement one another for more precise control. In commercial devices, AMM and PC functionalities could even be combined together in different ways, e.g., transmissive and sound absorptive structures, for improved performance. To unlock the full potential of AMMs and PCs, it is therefore vital to ensure that practical, physical realization is pursued alongside theoretical investigation in the development of viable acoustic designs. Building an AMM or PC requires some form of fabrication or assembly or both. Fabrication refers to the technologies and processes used to manufacture an object, whereas assembly refers to the strategic amalgamation of parts for a constructive purpose.

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“…On the other hand, bistability and multistability have been identified in certain origami patterns such that by switching among different stable states the structural mechanical properties can be reversibly reprogrammed [26][27][28][29][30] . In addition to these, the scale independence of origami folding further expands its applicability in metamaterial development; one pattern can be scaled up to architecture size [31,32] or scaled down to a nanometric level [33,34] without altering the basic folding-induced properties.…”

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Programmable Self‐Locking Origami Mechanical Metamaterials

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Developing mechanical metamaterials with programmable properties is an emerging topic receiving wide attention. While the programmability mainly originates from structural multistability in previously designed metamaterials, here it is shown that nonflat-foldable origami provides a new platform to achieve programmability via its intrinsic self-locking and reconfiguration capabilities. Working with the single-collinear degree-4 vertex origami tessellation, it is found that each unit cell can self-lock at a nonflat configuration and, therefore, possesses wide design space to program its foldability and relative density. Experiments and numerical analyses are combined to demonstrate that by switching the deformation modes of the constituent cell from prelocking folding to postlocking pressing, its stiffness experiences a sudden jump, implying a limiting-stopper effect. Such a stiffness jump is generalized to a multisegment piecewise stiffness profile in a multilayer model. Furthermore, it is revealed that via strategically switching the constituent cells' deformation modes through passive or active means, the n-layer metamaterial's stiffness is controllable among 2 target stiffness values. Additionally, the piecewise stiffness can also trigger bistable responses dynamically under harmonic excitations, highlighting the metamaterial's rich dynamic performance. These unique characteristics of self-locking origami present new paths for creating programmable mechanical metamaterials with in situ controllable mechanical properties.

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Reconfigurable origami sonic barriers with tunable bandgaps for traffic noise mitigation

Cited by 55 publications

References 17 publications

Architected Origami Materials: How Folding Creates Sophisticated Mechanical Properties

Architected Origami Materials: How Folding Creates Sophisticated Mechanical Properties

Fabricating and Assembling Acoustic Metamaterials and Phononic Crystals

Programmable Self‐Locking Origami Mechanical Metamaterials

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