Localization of Vibration Propagation in Two-Dimensional Systems With Multiple Substructural Modes

Localization of vibration propagation in randomly disordered weakly coupled two-dimensional cantilever-mesh-spring arrays, in which multiple substructural modes are considered for each cantilever, is studied in this paper. A method of regular perturbation for a linear algebraic system is applied to determine the localization factors, which are defined in terms of the angles of orientation and characterize the average exponential rates of growth or decay of the amplitudes of vibration in the given directions. Iterative formulations are derived to determine the amplitudes of vibration of the cantilevers. In the diagonal directions, a transfer matrix formulation is obtained. For a given direction of orientation, the localization behavior is similar to that of a one-dimensional cantilever-spring-mesh chain. The effect of the stiffnesses and the disorder in the stiffnesses of the cantilevers on the localization behavior of the system is investigated.