坐席低谷效应的时域有限差分多项模拟

介绍了交错网格下,以声压和质点振动速度为声场参量的室内声学时域有限差分递推格式,给出了在建筑边界截断计算区域的边界条件差分格式。在水平地面房间模型下,应用时域有限差分法模拟了坐席低谷效应对于空间和时间的多种特性;此外,模拟了地面起坡时的低谷效应。     

室内声学时域有限差分模拟中的边界条件

给出了时域有限差分法用于室内声学问题模拟中的边界条件,结合声波方程的基本差分格式,模拟并分析了高斯脉冲在4m×4m房间中的波动过程和脉冲响应;模拟了一9m×6m×4m房间的简正频率,并与经典理论计算值进行了对比;模拟了一12m×5m×4m水平地面房间中的坐席吸声低谷效应,并与Joe LoVtri的模拟结果进行了对比;模拟并实际测量了一10.6m×5.8m×3.4m房间在几个受声点的脉冲响应和早期衰变时间EDT,将模拟结果与实际测量结果进行了对比分析,计算程序是用Metlab语言编写的。模拟与经典理论、相关研究、实际测量几方面的对比分析,验证了本边界条件的可靠性。     

微穿孔板吸声结构仿真计算方法研究

本文提出将马氏微穿孔板理论与传递导纳法相结合,建立简化的微穿孔板吸声结构的有限元仿真计算方法。基于阻抗管法材料吸声系数测试原理建立了吸声系数仿真实验模型,对微穿孔板结构的吸声系数进行了仿真计算,并与理论计算结果做了对比,说明了该简化方法的合理可行。同时,对金属和非金属材料的微穿孔板计算时温度传导系数的影响做了比较说明。     

0-3型压电复合材料覆盖层水下 吸声性能的理论研究

目前压电分流阻尼技术在振动和噪声领域的应用得到了广泛的关注. 本文尝试将压电分流阻尼技术应用于水下吸声领域, 以提高覆盖层的吸声性能. 将压电覆盖层厚度模态的机电方程和声波传播的传递矩阵相结合, 建立一维电声模型. 该模型可以用于分析多层压电和非压电水下吸声覆盖层的吸声性能. 采用该模型分析了0-3型压电复合材料覆盖层的水下吸声性能. 压电复合材料的参数是采用Furukawa的模型计算的. 研究结果表明, 采用合适的分流电阻, 负电容分流电路可以在较宽的频率范围显著提高覆盖层的吸声性能. 其原理可以从阻抗匹配的角度解释, 负电容分流电路可以调整压电覆盖层的表面声阻抗, 使之与水的特性声阻抗相匹配.     

声学二维平面周期结构的吸声性能建模

声学周期结构兼具优化室内声场环境,节约建筑吸声材料的特性而在现代建筑中广泛使用。针对二维平面周期结构的声场优化特性,建立了一种吸声系数计算模型。首先,根据边界条件理论推导了吸声系数的线性方程组,继而通过数值分析方法进行求解,最后在驻波管和混响室中分别进行实验验证。实验结果表明,测量的吸声系数和理论计算曲线吻合良好,该模型可以准确测算二维平面周期结构的吸声系数。同时分析表明:在平面周期结构中,相同吸声材料面积情况下,吸声材料占比越大,吸声效果越好;在相同吸声材料面积和占比情况下,材料边缘长度越长,高频段吸声效果越好;随着材料边缘长度的减少,边缘效应影响减弱。     

空腔结构吸声器的吸声系数计算方法的研究

探讨计算空腔结构吸声器吸声系数的方法。以粘弹体能量守恒方程为基础导出吸声器各层媒质的表达式,用声波在分层吸收媒质中传播模型计算能量吸收系数。用所导出的等效密度、弹性模量表达式和文献1[声学学报,1965;2(4):192-197]、文献2[同济大学学报, 1979(1):96-104]所给的等效参数,分别计算了尖劈吸声器和空腔结构的尖劈吸声器的吸声系数,比较表明对于前者三种方法都有效,对于后者本文的结果与实测吸声系数曲线较符合,另两文与实验相差较大;又用本方法分别计算了平板吸声器含空腔及空腔结构变化时的吸声系数,所得结果合理地反映了空腔结构对吸声性能的影响;对原空腔结构吸声器的吸声系数模拟结果作了实验验证,表明计算值和测量结果基本相符。结果表明用本文所给等效参量表达式和声波在分层吸收媒质中传播模型,近似计算空腔结构吸声器的吸声系数是可行的。     

微穿孔平板式空间吸声体的理论分析

对微穿孔平板式空间吸声体的吸声特性进行了理论预计,其中运用了半厚度模型分析和四端网络计算方法。计算结果与混响室实测数据符合较好。文中根据预测结果,分析了影响微穿孔平板式空间吸声体吸声性能的诸项主要因素,可为设计应用提供指南。     

时域有限差分法在建筑声学中的应用及前景

介绍了声波方程的基本差分格式及稳定条件、数值色散、吸收边界条件等数值计算理论，例举了前人用时域有限差分法对噪声传播过程的模拟和室内声学中座椅吸声低谷效应模拟的模拟结果。本文指出，由于时域有限差分法的特点使其具有在模拟脉冲响应方而的特别优势，因而，应用这一技术研究厅堂的声学特性，尤其是低频特性，将有重要意义。     

吸声覆盖层研究进展

从粘弹性材料复杂结构吸声性能计算和粘弹性材料动态力学参数获取两方面对吸声覆盖层研究进行了回顾。计算模型主要有分层介质模型、等效介质模型、空腔谐振模型以及数值计算方法。动态力学参数获取主要有基于振动的直接测量方法、基于声学性能测试的反演方法和近些年发展起来的有限元的反演方法。最后对吸声覆盖层研究的发展趋势进行了展望。     

材料吸声系数双传声器测量的参数识别方法

本文提出了在普通房间中利用双传声器对多孔性和纤维性吸声材料吸声系数测量时的参数识别方法。利用Delany&Bazley经验模型对测量数据进行了参数识别,建立了材料的阻抗模型,并计算出材料全频带的吸声系数。与驻波管方法得到的吸声系数相比,在0～3000Hz范围内,二者都能较好地吻合。通过在不同的环境中进行对比测试,说明该方法具有较好的重复性和准确性。     

Application of audience-seats characteristics to the sound field analysis for large enclosures

The analysis of the sound field of a hall including the effect of audience seats has difficulties in computing time and memory. Although extensive investigations have been conducted for analyzing sound fields, there is scarcely any report dealing with the sound field including this effect. The main cause may be the complex shape and amount of materials of the audience seats. However, there is a possibility that periodical grooved structures like seat rows can be replaced by an appropriate imaginary boundary with an impedance of quasi-local reaction at the top of seats. The purpose of this research is to reduce the calculation load of acoustical analysis by treating the seat rows as an imaginary-impedance boundary which is almost equivalent to the characteristics of audience seats. The SDE filter, which can express excess attenuation caused by seat rows, is proposed and some applications to both the geometrical and wave theoretical methods are presented. To examine the validity of this method, some numerical examples calculated using an image method are discussed in comparison with the measured data. Furthermore, the numerical results of its application to the boundary element method are presented and discussed in terms of its effectiveness and validity.     

Numerical assessment of fore-and-aft suspension performance to reduce whole-body vibration of wheel loader drivers

While driving off-road vehicles, operators are exposed to whole-body vibration acting in the fore-and-aft direction. Seat manufacturers supply products equipped with fore-and-aft suspension but only a few studies report on their performance. This work proposes a computational approach to design fore-and-aft suspensions for wheel loader seats. Field tests were conducted in a quarry to analyse the nature of vibration to which the driver was exposed. Typical input signals were recorded to be reproduced in the laboratory. Technical specifications are defined for the suspension. In order to evaluate the suspension vibration attenuation performance, a model of a sitting human body was developed and coupled to a seat model. The seat model combines the models of each suspension component. A linear two-degree-of-freedom model is used to describe the dynamic behaviour of the sitting driver. Model parameters are identified by fitting the computed apparent mass frequency response functions to the measured values. Model extensions are proposed to investigate postural effects involving variations in hands and feet positions and interaction of the driver's back with the backrest. Suspension design parameters are firstly optimized by computing the seat/man model response to sinusoidal acceleration. Four criteria including transmissibility, interaction force between the driver's back and the backrest and relative maximal displacement of the suspension are computed. A new suspension design with optimized features is proposed. Its performance is checked from calculations of the response of the seat/man model subjected to acceleration measured on the wheel loader during real work conditions. On the basis of the computed values of the SEAT factors, it is found possible to design a suspension that would increase the attenuation provided by the seat by a factor of two.     

Relativistic charged Bose gas

The excitation spectrum of a relativistic spin-zero charged Bose gas is obtained in a dielectric response formulation. Relativity introduces a dip in the spectrum and the consequences of this dip for the thermodynamic functions are discussed.     

The use of seat effective amplitude transmissibility (SEAT) values to predict dynamic seat comfort

The Seat Effective Amplitude Transmissibility (SEAT) value is the ratio of the vibration experienced on top of the seat and the vibration that one would be exposed to when sitting directly on the vibrating floor. SEAT values have been widely used to determine the vibration isolation efficiency of a seat. In this article the subjective evaluations of six persons were compared to the SEAT values estimated from experimentally obtained transmissibility curves for 16 different automobile seats ranging from sedans to SUVs and pickups. A vertical rough road stimulus was used as input for both the subjective testing and the SEAT calculations. The SEAT values were estimated using the power spectral density of the vertical vibration input at the seat track and the measured transmissibility data to compute the response in the vertical direction at the seat top. The averaged, estimated SEAT values were compared to averaged measured values and significant correlation (R²=0.94) was obtained. The subjective ratings were obtained on the Ford Vehicle Vibration Simulator using a paired comparison methodology that eliminated static comfort bias during the evaluation. The results indicated that there is good correlation (R²=0.94) between the subjective ratings and the SEAT values when the subjective ratings and transmissibilities are averaged over the six subjects.     

Assessing the effect of a barrier between two rooms subjected to low frequency sound using the boundary element method

The boundary element method (BEM) has been used to compute the acoustic wave propagation through a single vertical panel, which separates two rooms, made of concrete, when one of the rooms is excited by a steady-state, spatially sinusoidal, harmonic line load pressure at low frequencies. This work focuses on how the connection of the panel to the ceiling affects the acoustic insulation provided by the wall. Perfect double-fixed partitions and acoustic barrier-type structures with differently-sized gaps between the ceiling and the barrier are studied. The BEM model is formulated in the frequency domain and takes the air-solid interaction fully into account. Insulation dips are localised in the frequency domain and identified with dips associated with both the wall's natural dynamic vibration modes and with those associated with the air in the rooms. The influence of the wall's thickness on acoustic insulation is also analysed. The computed results obtained with the acoustic barrier type structure are compared with those obtained by a rigid model. The importance of the rooms' surface conditions is assessed, modelling the rooms with cork.     

The vibration damping effectiveness of an active seat suspension system and its robustness to varying mass loading

The paper describes the simulated dynamic response of an active vibro-isolating pneumatic suspension seat. Active control of the air-spring force is used to improve its vibro-isolation properties. For the active vibration isolating system described, a triple feedback loop control system was developed and analysed. The system robustness for different load masses was investigated using the verified active seat suspension model. The Seat Effective Amplitude Transmissibility factor (SEAT) and the maximum suspension deflection were used as the seat performance indices.     

EFFECTS RELATED TO RANDOM WHOLE-BODY VIBRATION AND POSTURE ON A SUSPENDED SEATWITH AND WITHOUT BACKREST

WBV-exposures are often linked with forced postures as prolonged sitting, bent forward sitting, or sitting without a backrest. No quantitative data are available to describe the exposure-effect relationships for different conditions of seating, posture, and the biological variability of workers. Experiments and subsequent predictions of forces acting within the spine during WBV can help to improve the assessment of the health risk. An experimental study was performed with 39 male subjects sitting on a suspension seat with or with no backrest contact. They were exposed to random whole-body vibration with a weighted r.m.s. value of 0·6 m/s² at a relaxed or a forward bending posture. A two-dimensional finite element model was used for the calculation of the internal spinal load. The model simulates the human response on a suspension driver seat. Individual exposure conditions were considered by including the transfer functions between the seat cushion and the seat base as well as between the backrest and the seat base for the calculation of the vibration input to the buttocks and to the back respectively. The average peak seat transmissibility was higher for the seat with the backrest, but the peak seat-to-head transmissibility was higher for the seat without the backrest for both postures. The peak transmissibilities between the accelerations at the seat base and the compressive forces at L5/S1 were highest for the seat without the backrest during the bending posture. Various biological effects can result from identical exposures combined with different backrest contact and postures. The backrest contact and posture conditions should not be neglected in the assessment of health risk caused by whole-body vibration.     

Transmission of fore-aft vibration to a car seat using field tests and laboratory simulation

The transmission of fore-aft vibration to the seat cushion and backrest of a small car has been investigated by means of a field test and laboratory simulation methods. In the field test, transmissibilities to the seat backrest and the seat pan were computed using both single-input single-output and two-input one-output system models. The results showed that in the car the fore-aft vibration at the seat pan and the backrest depended not only on the fore-aft vibration of the floor but also on the vertical vibration of the floor. In the laboratory simulation, the transmissibilities were measured with 12 subjects and five different vibration stimuli. It was found that the fore-aft transmissibilities to both the backrest and the seat pan exhibited three resonance frequencies in the ranges 4-5, 25-30 and 45-50 Hz. The laboratory test also revealed that for the backrest and the seat pan, the resonance frequencies and the peak transmissibility at resonance changed with vibration magnitude, indicating non-linearity involving both seat-person systems. The field test and the laboratory test methods have different advantages. The correct vibration input spectra and the correct subject posture can be used in a field test, whereas a higher coherency can be obtained using the laboratory test. It was found that the low coherency in the field test when using the single-input and single-output assumption could be improved by adopting a two-input and one-output system model.