Elastic metasurface for flexural wave refraction based on acoustic black hole

Abstract

This letter presents a thin plate structure with an acoustic black hole (ABH) sub-unit to reorient the flexural wave. Different from the previously reported flexural wave metasurface, ABH sub-units are introduced into thin plates in this work, which can control the group velocity of flexural waves and realize their efficient transmission. According to generalized Snell's law, the mechanism of phase shift of transmitted waves across subwavelength sub-units is theoretically revealed. An analysis of the ABH sub-units is established by the finite element method. The deflection and focusing effect of flexural waves are demonstrated. Furthermore, adjusting the black hole section can quickly obtain the transmission phase response in the range of 2π, and it can accurately predict the phase shift and amplitude of the transmitted wave. The results show that the ABH beam-plate structure can effectively control the propagation direction of flexural waves, which provides a modern design idea and method for the manipulation and energy harvesting of the flexural wave.