Pillar-type acoustic metasurface

Abstract

We theoretically investigate acoustic metasurfaces consisting of either a single pillar or a line of identical pillars on a thin plate, and we report on the dependence on the geometrical parameters of both the monopolar compressional and dipolar bending modes. We show that for specific dimensions of the resonators, bending and compressional modes may be simultaneously excited. We study their interaction with an antisymmetric Lamb wave, whether or not they occur at the same frequency, with particular consideration for the amplitude and phase of waves emitted by the pillars at resonance. Especially, the analysis of both the amplitude and the phase of the wave at the common resonant frequency downstream from a line of pillars demonstrates that the reemitted waves allow for the transmission with phase shift of π.