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Phononic crystals of the smaller scale show a promising future in the field of vibration and sound reduction owing to their capability of accurate manipulation of elastic waves arising from size-dependent band gaps. However, manipulating band gaps is still a major challenge for existing design approaches. In order to obtain the microcomposites with desired band gaps, a data drive approach is proposed in this study. A tandem neural network is trained to establish the mapping relation between the flexural wave band gaps and the microphononic beams. The dynamic characteristics of wave motion are described using the modified coupled stress theory, and the transfer matrix method is employed to obtain the band gaps within the size effects. The results show that the proposed network enables feasible generated micro phononic beams and works better than the neural network that outputs design parameters without the help of the forward path. Moreover, even size effects are diminished with increasing unit cell length, the trained model can still generate phononic beams with anticipated band gaps. The present work can definitely pave the way to pursue new breakthroughs in micro phononic crystals and metamaterials research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To gain a complete view on the unique spatial attenuation phenomenon arising from the periodicity and the material viscoelasticity of the two-dimensional phononic crystals with finite out-of-plane extension, this paper presents a theoretical study of the viscoelastic phononic crystal slabs to investigate the wave transmission characteristics in terms of the dispersion relations for the propagating, evanescent, and complex modes. A numerical approach based on the theory of three-dimensional elasticity is proposed to eliminate the restrictions of plane analysis and to obtain the complex band diagrams using the wave expansion functions combined with the finite discretization technique. This formulation allows one to perform the simulations associated with the nonlinear frequency-dependent viscoelastic property which is accurately described by a generalized Maxwell model in this work. Numerical results are presented to show the validity of the established model and to reveal the dissipation mechanisms inside and outside the band gaps as well as to investigate the effects induced by the material viscoelasticity on the attenuation diagrams. Furthermore, the influences of the out-of-plane extension, the geometrical size and the shape of the etcfhed holes are detailed discussed to obtain thorough understandings of such a finite solid viscoelastic periodic lattice which is indispensable to practical applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]