Innovative structural design of chiral lattices with low frequency wide multiple band gaps and vibration suppression.

Abstract In order to achieve low-frequency vibration and noise reduction, this paper proposes an innovative structure based on the four-ligament chiral structure. The band gap characteristics and the principle of band gap generation are numerically analyzed by using the finite element method. By optimizing the proposed structure, the band gap is obviously transferred to the low frequency. The propagation characteristics of elastic waves with a specific frequency on the passband in the proposed structure are studied. Finally, the calculated band gap frequency range is compared with the finite element simulation results, and the two correspond perfectly. The research shows that the proposed structure has a good bandgap frequency range, which can play a good role in suppressing vibration transmission, and by improving the chiral structure of the basic four ligaments, the bandgap frequency range of the structure can be transferred from a high frequency to low frequency, which provides ideological guidance and scheme for the structural design of metamaterial that suppress low-frequency waves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]