多层多孔吸声材料结构参数优化设计*

高开孔率的发泡材料(如三聚氰胺、聚氨酯发泡材料)具有优良的吸声、隔热防火、防腐及环保性能,可以作为吸声、阻尼等材料应用于建筑、航空、交通工具等领域。该文基于Biot理论和多层介质声波传播理论(传递矩阵法),建立多层多孔吸声结构背衬刚性壁的理论模型,利用遗传算法优化多层结构厚度和质量。将理论模型计算结果与阻抗管测试结果进行对比,验证了理论模型的准确性。结果表明:优化后的多层多孔吸声结构在整体厚度降低18 mm的基础上,吸声能力并未降低,且部分结构低频吸声增强,结构的整体重量也有所降低,达到轻薄化的目标,具有较大的应用价值。     

利用含多孔介质微穿孔周期结构增强声吸收

为获得理想吸声性能,提出了一种由多孔材料,微穿孔板及空气层构成的周期复合结构,并利用微穿孔板理论和等效流体多孔材料模型,结合等效电路法进行了分析。结果表明,复合结构显著增强了微穿孔板结构的中低频吸声性能,但其高频性能较单独多孔材料差;采用合适填充比例并联布置多种多孔材料,可适当调节复合结构的吸声性能。此外,周期复合结构的堆叠层数N≥1时,相对单层复合结构,中低频吸声带宽提升至少40%(≥380 Hz);相对多层微穿孔板结构,增大N对相应中低频吸声带宽提升不低于30%(≥300 Hz)。总体上,文中周期复合结构可显著增强传统微穿孔结构的中低频性能,是一种简单高效的中低频宽频降噪方案。      

高声压级时多孔金属板的吸声特性研究

针对高声压级下有限厚度多孔金属板在线性阻抗背衬条件下(背衬表面声压与声质点速度为线性关系)的吸声问题,提出了一个描述不同声压级下材料层法向吸声性能的一维模型,并给出求解材料层内部声质点速度的线化与差分方法,以预测多孔金属板在高声压级下的非线性吸声特性。在阻抗管中对两块多孔金属板进行了声学测试,得到了材料层法向表面阻抗和吸声系数随入射声压级变化的实验结果。研究表明:实验与理论预测符合良好,验证了模型与数值方法的正确性。本文所提原理和方法,可用于一般硬质多孔材料。      

金属多孔材料吸声板的优化模型

金属纤维多孔材料与一般纤维材料相比具有较高比强度的优点,其声学性质已引起人们的注意。本文试图从直通孔介质的吸声模型拓展到一般的刚性多孔介质,讨论金属多孔吸声板在液体介质中吸声的主要无量纲控制参数,从而建立一个基本的吸声优化模型。计算表明,通过适当选取参数,可以比较清楚地了解在特定频率范围内和不超过特定厚度的条件下吸声结构是否可以达到特定的吸声指标,也由此提供一个利用无量纲参数设计水下低频薄层吸声结构的模型。     

梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料的吸声性能

在传统单一孔隙率多孔材料中引入宏观尺度的周期性梯度穿缝结构设计,构造出梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料,其包含多孔材料基体微孔尺度与穿缝尺度两个尺度。采用分层等效的理论建模方法,将复杂梯度渐变问题变为多层均匀等效层叠加问题。针对不同特征尺寸的多孔材料薄层,分别采用低、高两种渗透率对比度双孔隙率理论,给出了其等效密度和动态压缩系数,再应用传递矩阵方法得到了相邻薄层之间的声压和质点速度传递关系并求得其表面声阻抗,从而建立了梯度穿缝型双孔隙率多孔材料的吸声理论模型。发展了多尺度材料声学有限元数值模型,在所考虑的100~3000 Hz频段范围内数值模拟结果完全吻合理论模型结果。理论与模拟分析了多尺度结构参数对双孔隙率多孔材料吸声性能的影响,结果表明引入多尺度梯度结构设计能够显著提高单一孔隙率多孔材料的吸声性能,且穿缝尺度比穿缝梯度影响更为显著;精细数值模拟获得的声压和能量密度分布云图揭示了多尺度结构设计的吸声增强机制。该工作可用于指导双孔隙率多孔材料的多尺度结构设计,从而提高多孔材料的中低频吸声性能。      

微穿孔板复合板型声学超材料的低频吸声

针对单层微穿孔板的低频吸声问题提出了微穿孔板复合板型声学超材料结构。将板型声学超材料置入微穿孔板结构的背腔内部实现结构复合。实验结果表明:在相同背腔厚度下,复合结构的吸声性能整体优于单层微穿孔板结构,其中复合结构的吸声曲线从396~892 Hz均大于0.6,在453 Hz处吸声系数达到0.972。利用有限元方法对复合结构进行了仿真,仿真计算的吸声曲线与实验吸声曲线的趋势基本相同,同时发现低频吸声主要由板型声学超材料与声波相互作用贡献。板型声学超材料的吸声峰值的对应频率处,其等效动态质量密度从正变负。在复合结构内部的微穿孔板和板型声学超材料存在相互耦合作用,使得复合结构的第一峰值发生微小偏移。增加板型声学超材料的质量块重量可以使第一吸声峰值向低频移动;保持总背腔厚度不变,增加板型声学超材料的子腔厚度,也可以使第一吸声峰向低频移动。      

含三聚氰胺多孔材料分层复合介质吸声特性*

三聚氰胺泡沫材料是一种具有高开孔率的多孔材料,具备优良的吸音、防火隔热及环保性能,可以作为吸声材料与弹性板、空腔介质形成复合结构,在建筑、航空、交通工具等工程领域有广泛的应用。该文基于Biot理论和分层介质在交界面处的不同边界条件,建立非均匀复合介质背衬刚性壁面结构的理论声学模型,详细分析了多孔材料布局对复合结构吸声特性的影响。该文理论模型计算的结果与阻抗实验得到的垂直入射吸声系数基本一致,验证了理论模型的正确性。结果表明:在多孔材料前面增加空气层可以改善高频吸声特性;在多孔材料后面增加空气层可以改善复合结构低频吸声特性。通过合理配置多孔材料,可以在应用需求频段上达到满意的吸声效果。     

分层吸声结构的声学设计与性能分析

本文给出了声波在多层介质中的传播方程，通过数值计算，分析了各层参数对分层吸声结构声学性能的影响规律。用参数匹配方法，对多层吸声结构各层材料的参数进行设计。结果表明，通过合理分布各层材料，多层吸声结构可以在较宽频段上达到满意的吸声性能。     

面包的吸声性能

多孔材料因其优异的吸声性能在声学领域有深入的研究和广泛的应用。面包作为一种典型的多孔材料，其声学性能少有人关注。本文探究了面包制备工艺的对其声学性能的影响规律。本文主要通过研究酵母菌用量，发酵时间，厚度，面水比例，面筋强度的不同来探究对其吸声效率的影响。实验结果表明：实验用量酵母菌4g，发酵时间40min为宜，在此条件上，增加厚度，面水比例，面筋强度可以进一步增强吸收率，增强面包品质。     

经典局域共振型水声超材料的吸隔声性能研究*

基于水声超材料吸声机理和多层平行介质平面波理论,建立局域共振型水声超材料结构,通过COMSOL进行建模计算,研究该结构的吸声性能机理,此外为了验证钢背衬的隔声性能,在该水声超材料结构基础上添加一层0.005m厚的钢背衬进行仿真对比。研究结果表明,在频段为200Hz-4000Hz时,水声超材料声学性能较好,吸声性能整体较优,且添加钢背衬的水声超材料隔声性能较优,甚至在某频率点达到15dB的隔声差值;此外通过位移场图进一步揭示水声超材料的吸声机理,发现水声超材料结构的位移场和钢背衬都对吸声性能会产生影响,钢背衬通过影响共振吸收来影响吸声性能,而位移场则通过位移幅度大小影响吸声性能。     

Sound absorption performance of gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity materials

A gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity material is proposed by introducing macro-scale periodic gradient slit-perforations into traditional porous materials with singleporosity.This material is one kind of multiscale material since it includes two scales of matrix micro-pore size and slit-perforation size.A theoretical model is developed for the sound absorption of the gradiently slit-perforated double-porosity material.In the model,the material is divided into lots of thin layers and each layer is approximated to be straight slit-perforated material.The equivalent density and dynamic compressibility of each thin layer are given by using the low or high permeability contrast double-porosity theory.Then the sound pressure and particle velocity relations between adjacent thin layers are obtained by employing the transfer matrix method.Finally,the surface acoustic impedance and the sound absorption of the gradiently slit-perforated porous material can be calculated.A finite element model is further established to validate the accuracy of the theoretical model.In the considered frequency range of 100-3000 Hz,the simulation results agree well with theoretical results.The influence of multiscale structural parameters on the sound absorption performance of the porous materials is analyzed theoretically and numerically.It is proved that the multiscale structure design can significantly improve the sound absorption performance of porous materials.Compared to the slit-perforation gradient,the slit-perforation width plays a more significant influence on sound absorption.The sound absorption enhancement mechanism of the multiscale structure design is revealed by the analysis of the sound pressure and energy dissipation distributions in the material.This work provides a multiscale structural design method for improving the sound absorption performance of traditional porous materials at broadband frequency.     

Use of a hybrid adaptive finite element/modal approach to assess the sound absorption of porous materials with meso-heterogeneities

The paper discusses the sound absorptive performance of a porous material with meso-perforations inserted in a rectangular waveguide using a numerical hybrid adaptive finite element-modal method. Two specific applications are investigated: (i) the improvement of porous materials noise reduction coefficient using meso-perforations (ii) the effects of lateral air gaps on the normal incidence sound absorption of mono-layer and two-layer porous materials. For the first application, a numerical design of experiments is used to optimize the sound performance of a porous material with meso-perforations with a reduced number of numerical simulation. An example in which the optimization process is carried out on the thickness and size of the perforation is presented to illustrate the relevance of the approach. For the second application, a set of twenty fibrous materials spanning a large flow resistivity range is used. Practical charts are proposed to evaluate the influence of air gaps on the average sound absorption performance of porous materials. This is helpful to both the experimenter regarding characterization of porous material based on Standing Wave Tube measurements and for the engineer to quantifying the impact of air gaps and for designing efficient absorbers.     

Controlling sound absorption by an upstream resistive layer

Resistive screens, or perforated plates, are widely used upstream of porous materials. They can be used either for protection or decoration, or for acoustic properties enhancement. This study points out the role that a resistive layer can have upstream on a porous material. Based on numerical simulations, this work gives the guidelines for rational use of high resistive layers in order to maximize the normal sound absorption of porous multilayers. Two major results emerge: (i) the upstream resistive layer can control the sound absorption of the porous multilayer, while nullifying the acoustic properties of downstream layer and (ii) this upstream layer may be detrimental to sound absorption of porous multilayer. Experimental validation on a porous multilayer, controlled by a woven textile, supports these findings. The sound absorption of material with poor sound absorption performance can be enhanced with a conveniently designed resistive layer.     

Investigation of industrial tea-leaf-fibre waste material for its sound absorption properties

The sound absorption of an industrial waste, developed during the processing of tea leaves has been investigated. Three different layers of tea-leaf-fibre waste materials with and without backing provided by a single layer of woven textile cloth were tested for their sound absorption properties. The experimental data indicate that a 1 cm thick tea-leaf-fibre waste material with backing, provides sound absorption which is almost equivalent to that provided by six layers of woven textile cloth. Twenty millimeters thick layers of rigidly backed tea-leaf-fibres and non-woven fibre materials exhibit almost equivalent sound absorption in the frequency range between 500 and 3200 Hz.     

Acoustical properties of double porosity granular materials

Granular materials have been conventionally used for acoustic treatment due to their sound absorptive and sound insulating properties. An emerging field is the study of the acoustical properties of multiscale porous materials. An example of these is a granular material in which the particles are porous. In this paper, analytical and hybrid analytical-numerical models describing the acoustical properties of these materials are introduced. Image processing techniques have been employed to estimate characteristic dimensions of the materials. The model predictions are compared with measurements on expanded perlite and activated carbon showing satisfactory agreement. It is concluded that a double porosity granular material exhibits greater low-frequency sound absorption at reduced weight compared to a solid-grain granular material with similar mesoscopic characteristics.     

Analysis of sound absorption by periodic structures using a hybrid-boundary element/mode expansion method

An improved hybrid method is proposed for analyzing sound scattering by a periodic structure. Part of the scattered field formulated with the mode expansion method is combined with other components of the field formulated with the boundary integration method in one period of the structure. Structures treated by this method can have arbitrary periodic forms made of locally reactive boundaries and porous materials. The oblique incident absorption coefficient of the structure is obtained simply from the reflection factor calculated for each elemental wave of the scattered field. The accuracy of the method is demonstrated by the agreement between calculated and measured values of the normal absorption coefficient of some test structures.