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The filling of these lattices with polymer-based (i.e., polyurethane) foams may further improve the overall vibration\/noise-damping without significantly increasing their density. This study explores the dynamic (i.e., frequency response) and acoustic properties of unfilled and polyurethane-filled aluminum cellular solids to characterize their behavior and explore their benefits in terms of vibration and noise-damping. It is shown that polyurethane filling can increase the vibration damping and transmission loss, especially if the infiltration process uses flexible foams. Considering sound reflection, however, it is shown that polyurethane filled samples (0.27\u20130.30 at 300 Hz) tend to display lower values of sound absorption coefficient relatively to unfilled samples (0.75 at 600 Hz), is this attributed to a reduction in overall porosity, tortuosity and flow resistivity. Foam-filled samples (43\u201344 dB at 700\u20131200 Hz) were shown to be more suitable to reduce sound transmission rather than reflection than unfilled samples (21 dB at 700 Hz). It was shown that the morphology of these cellular solids might be optimized depending on the desired application: (i) unfilled aluminum cellular solids are appropriate to mitigate internal noises due to their high sound absorption coefficient; and (ii) PU filled cellular solids are appropriate to prevent exterior noises and vibration damping due to their high transmission loss in a wide range of frequencies and vibration damping.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/met11050725","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,28]],"date-time":"2021-04-28T22:29:07Z","timestamp":1619648947000},"page":"725","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Vibration Damping and Acoustic Behavior of PU-Filled Non-Stochastic Aluminum Cellular Solids"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Vitor Hugo","family":"Carneiro","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CMEMS-UMinho, Campus of Azur\u00e9m, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1121-6793","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"H\u00e9lder","family":"Puga","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CMEMS-UMinho, Campus of Azur\u00e9m, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Meireles","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"MEtRiCS-Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center, Campus of Azur\u00e9m, University pf Minho, 4800-058 Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,4,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Vos, P. 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