Uncertain sound transmission loss of composite laminated plates with embedded viscoelastic damping layer

Laminated composite structures have been widely applied in the engineering field due to their excellent capacities such as high specific stiffness, high specific strengths and tailorable anisotropic elastic properties. Embedding the viscoelastic damping layers into the laminated composites to construct co-cured composite damping structures provides an effective way to improve the sound insulation capability. In this paper, a semi-analytical model is proposed to investigate the sound transmission loss (STL) of composite laminated structure with embedded viscoelastic damping layer considering its frequency-dependent characteristic. Furthermore, Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE) method in conjunction with the semi-analytical model is employed for uncertainty propagation analysis of sound transmission loss of the composite laminated plates subjected to uncertain parameters of frequency-dependent interleaved viscoelastic damping layer. Moreover, numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the impacts of the uncertain parameters of the embedded viscoelastic damping layer on the STL of the composite laminated plate. Finally, experiments are carried out to investigate the uncertain acoustic insulation performance of composite laminated plates with embedded damping layer. Key words: Laminated composite structure; Sound transmission loss; Uncertainty analysis; Damping layer; Frequency-dependent properties