Research progress of noise reduction of composite structures of porous materials and acoustic metamaterials

Abstract Noise pollution is an important problem affecting people’s lives and work quality. In the current noise reduction materials, the porous sound absorption materials usually only haveagood sound absorption effect for medium and high -frequency sound waves, and the sound absorption effect for low -frequency sound waves is relatively weak. However, in recent years, the research on acoustic metamaterials has made a breakthrough which can effectively absorb or isolate low-frequency sound waves. Therefore, researchers propose to combine porous sound-absorbing materials with acoustic metamaterials to form a composite structure, that broadens the frequency range of noise reduction, so as to achieve the goal of full-frequency domain noise reduction. This paper first introduces the research progress of porous materials and acoustic metamaterials, and then introduces the research progress of composite structures that are made of porous materials and acoustic metamaterials. Finally, the application prospect of the composite field of porous sound-absorbing materials and acoustic metamaterials are summarized.