University of Michigan

Marie Rice

Ellen M Arruda

Michael D Thouless

Tanaz Rahimzadeh

Levon Cimonian

A tuning and mitigation system and method for mitigating a blast or impact event having an elastic layer having an acoustic impedance chosen to tune stress waves resulting from the blast or impact to one or more specific tuned frequencies, and a dissipative layer made of a viscoelastic material having a critical damping frequency that matches at least one or more specific tuned frequencies.

Blast/impact frequency tuning and mitigation

A tuning and mitigation system for mitigating a blast or impact event having a tuning layer assembly having an acoustic impedance chosen to tune stress waves resulting from the blast or impact to one or more specific tuned frequencies, and a dissipative layer assembly made of a viscoelastic material having a critical damping frequency that matches at least one or more specific tuned frequencies.

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Marie Rice