LIU Mingli1, GONG Lingyun2, ZHANG Guanshuo2, ZHANG Huiren1, WANG Xinyang1, GAO Yuwen1, LUO Yu2, LUO Aochen2, CHEN Xingwen3, GAO Penglin2
Journal of Vibration and Shock. 2026, 45(9): 271-277.
Pipe vibration poses long-term hazards to the safe and reliable operation of production equipment in nuclear power, petrochemical, and related industries. Its radiated noise severely degrades the working environment, potentially leading to human-factor safety incidents. Conventional mitigation approaches, such as dynamic vibration absorbers, damping materials, and sound-absorbing materials, applied as post-treatment measures, often face significant drawbacks including bulky/complex auxiliary devices, poor structural compactness, and insufficient low-frequency vibration and noise reduction performance. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a method for low-frequency vibro-acoustic coupling control based on programmable piezoelectric metastructures (PPM). Piezoelectric patches are periodically arranged and connected to a digitally programmable multi-modal shunt circuit. A coupled vibro-acoustic finite element numerical model of the PPM was established. This model was used to investigate the vibration characteristics of the second and third bending modes and the effectiveness of multi-modal vibro-acoustic coupling control. The study demonstrates that the PPM can simultaneously suppress the resonant responses of these two bending modes, resulting in a corresponding reduction in the radiated sound pressure level from the pipe. For experimental validation, a test system for pipe vibration and noise incorporating the PPM was constructed. Measured results showed vibration and sound pressure level attenuation exceeding 15 dB. This experimentally confirms the multi-modal vibro-acoustic coupling control capability of the PPM. The proposed PPM offers significant advantages, including light weight, structural compactness, and flexible parameter tuning. It provides a valuable method for implementing multi-modal vibro-acoustic coupling control in industrial pipelines within confined spaces, such as those found in nuclear power and petrochemical facilities.