Abstract:The mechanism for asymmetric transmission is an important issue for enhanced sensing, amplification and asymmetric control of elastic waves. Parity-Time symmetric systems may provide a simple solution. The concept of Parity-Time symmetric systems comes from quantum mechanics, and one of its characteristics is unidirectional reflectionlessness. A PT symmetric beam for flexural waves is designed, which is based on piezoelectric shunting technology. Firstly, the PT symmetric condition is derived. Then, based on the effective medium method and finite element simulation, it is verified that the effective parameters of gain and loss unit meet the PT symmetric condition. The tunability of exception points is studied by changing the resonant frequency and the shunting resistance. Finally, the scattering property of the PT sym-metric beam is derived by transfer matrix method and finite element simulation, and the relationship between exceptional points and unidirectional non-reflection is illustrated. The calculated and simulated results show that the PT symmetric beam has several exceptional points including 511Hz and 520.5Hz. When the incident flexural waves of 511Hz is applied at the right side of the PT symmetric beam, the reflection coefficient is close to zero. However, when the frequency of the incident flexural waves changes to 520.5Hz, it should be applied on the left side of the PT symmetric beam in order to gain a total transmission without reflecting. The structure of the proposed PT symmetric beam is simple and the exceptional points of it are tunable, which can be used to achieve better asymmetric transmission of flexural wave.