应用了一种等效方法计算敷设声学覆盖层无限长圆柱壳体水下声散射特性.等效方法的核心是忽略复杂声学覆盖层内部的声学结构,将其作为具有等效材料参数的均匀阻尼层进行建模,该均匀阻尼层具有和原覆盖层相同的复反射系数.进而,应用COMSOL Multiphysics软件建立敷设均匀阻尼层圆柱壳体的有限元模型并求解其声散射特性.等效方法的关键是等效材料参数的获取.采用充水阻抗管实验和有限元数值实验两种方法获取声学覆盖层贴敷在与壳体具有相同厚度、相同材料背衬条件下的复反射系数,在此基础上,基于遗传算法反演材料的等效参数.研究表明,等效参数具有频变特性,且尽管等效杨氏模量和等效泊松比在频率范围内存在较大波动,但是等效前后复反射系数仍保持一致.为了验证等效方法求解壳体声散射特性的准确性,同时建立了敷设声学覆盖层壳体的完整有限元模型,将覆盖层内部声学结构进行精细建模,并求其声散射特性.结果表明,两种方法求得的形态函数符合得较好,在整个频率范围内平均误差大约为1 d B.
Anechoic coating attached to the surface of an underwater object is used for absorbing sound wave thereby reducing the reflection. The anechoic coating is often made of viscoelastic materials embedded with designed acoustic substructures, such as air cavities. The prediction of sound scattering on underwater object coated with such materials can be challenging due to the complex geometry of the anechoic coating, and it has been a research subject of interest in underwater acoustics. In this paper, we study the sound scattering on an infinite cylindrical shell coated with anechoic coating. Two types of coatings are considered: one is a layer of homogeneous isotropic material, and the other is a layer of homogeneous isotropic material with periodically embedded cylindrical air cavities. We use an equivalent method,in which the anechoic coating with air-filled cavities is regarded as a homogeneous isotropic material with equivalent material properties. The key point of the equivalent method is to ignore the internal structure of the anechoic coating,and the anechoic coating is considered as a homogeneous isotropic layer with the same complex reflection coefficient.These equivalent material properties are acquired based on the data of complex reflection coefficient obtained from either the physical experiment using water-filled impedance tube or the numerical experiment using the finite element method with COMSOL Multiphysics software. Then a genetic algorithm is used to inversely calculate the equivalent Young's modulus, Poisson's ratio, and damping loss factor of the coating which has the same reflection coefficient as the original coating. The results of the equivalent material properties show that 1) the three properties are all frequency dependent;2) in general, equivalent Young's modulus increases with the increase of frequency, meanwhile the equivalent damping loss factor tends to decrease; 3) there is a wide variation in the results of equivalent Poisson's ratio. Despite that, the reflection c