Inverse design of acoustic metamaterial sound barriers for road traffic noise control

Jiansen Li, Mingjing Yue, Yijin Hao, MOE Key Laboratory of High-speed Railway Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Civil Engineering College of Southwest Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology Beijing

Journal of Vibration and Control

Published online on January 19, 2026

Abstract

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A novel Acoustic Metamaterial Inverse Design Method (AMIDM) is proposed to achieve targeted noise reduction by linking measured noise spectra with optimized metamaterial unit cells. Utilizing a MATLAB-COMSOL co-simulation framework, an optimized barrier ...