Sound transmission loss of porous materials in ducts with embedded periodic scatterers.

Publisher:
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Citation:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2020, 147, (2), pp. 978-983
Issue Date:
2020-02
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Porous materials that are commonly used for sound absorption have poor sound insulation capability. In this paper, rigid scatterers are installed periodically inside porous materials to improve their transmission loss (TL) with the Bragg diffraction. The Delany-Bazley impedance model is used to model the porous material and the transfer matrix method is adopted to calculate the TL of the mixed structure in a duct. Simulation results with a different number of scatterers and porous materials with different airflow resistivity show that the TL of porous materials can be increased significantly with periodically arranged scatterers. The decoupled analysis reveals that the TL of the mixed structure is larger than the sum of the TL of individual components in most frequency bands, except that around the first Bragg resonance frequency.
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