Active Control of Sound Transmission through Orthogonally Rib Stiffened Double-Panel Structure: Mechanism Analysis

Physical mechanisms of active control of sound transmission through orthogonally two ribs stiffened double-panel structure are investigated. This is the continued work of the single rib stiffened case. For the orthogonally two ribs stiffened case, four different cluster mode groups can be coupled with each other, due to the interlaced coupling effects of the horizontal and vertical ribs. One cavity mode can couple with and transmit sound energy to any type of base plate mode of the radiating ribbed plate. Consequently, the main differences of the control mechanism, when compared with the single ribbed case, lie in two aspects. One is that a novel mechanism appears. That is, suppressing and rearranging the cavity modes simultaneously achieves the suppression of the base plate modes. The other is that rearrangement of the cavity modes to rearrange the base plate modes for achieving sound radiation cancellation almost does not appear. The reason is that all types of cavity mode can couple with any one of the base plate modes due to the coupling effects of the two ribs. There is only a need to rearrange several important cavity modes to achieve suppressing the base plate mode of the radiating ribbed plate.