阻尼受击板的时域建模及声音合成

为满足声源辨识中对合成冲击声的迫切需求,建立了球-板撞击的时域模型,提出一种时域快速求解方法,并进行了实验验证.首先给出一种将时域有限差分法(FDTD)和模态展开法(MEM)相结合的时域混合方法,求解板的振动方程,并解决了混合方法中MEM的模态截断和初值问题,及两种方法中阻尼的一致性问题;随后,给出了简支矩形板的冲击声计算结果,通过与FDTD方法的运算量进行对比,验证了混合方法的高效性;最后,针对自由边界下的L形板进行了实验验证.结果表明,与传统FDTD方法相比,时域混合方法在保证合成冲击声精度的前提下可将计算效率提高100至1200倍。      

空气耦合电容式微超声换能器设计

建立了空气耦合电容式微超声换能器(CMUT)的理论方法,分析CMUT各个结构参数对其性能参数的影响。根据理论分析结果结合无损检测应用背景设计了一个由16个阵元构成的CMUT阵列,并采用SOI晶圆键合工艺制作。该阵列每个阵元包含16个圆形CMUT敏感单元,敏感单元的半径400μm,中心频率230 kHz。建立CMUT发射和接收瞬态仿真模型分别得到CMUT发射声压和接收灵敏度与激励电压的关系,并通过实验测试验证该仿真模型的准确性。最后通过实验对CMUT与商用压电空耦超声换能器的性能进行对比,实验结果表明CMUT的发射声压和接收灵敏度与商用换能器达到相同数量级,并且能够成功激发和接收铝合金板中A_0模态Lamb波。     

复杂结构冲击声合成及实验验证

以复杂结构受击振动响应的时域计算为目的, 讨论了结构阻尼的计算方法, 给出一种用于冲击声合成的综合数值方法, 并进行了实验验证. 首先, 考虑到阻尼是影响瞬态振动时变特性的重要因素, 详细讨论了两种模态阻尼的计算方法; 其次, 对阻尼板的受击振动和声辐射进行了时域仿真, 并与时域有限差分法的计算结果进行对比, 显示出两种声音合成方法的计算结果具有高度的一致性; 最后, 针对有限长圆柱壳的受击振动, 将合成声与实验录音进行了对比研究. 结果表明, 合成声与实际录音的时域包络、频谱结构以及衰减趋势基本一致, 证明了采用数值方法进行冲击声合成的有效性. 关键词： 声音合成 模态阻尼 冲击声 数值方法     

Discrete state space method and modal extension method based impact sound synthesis model

The efficient and accurate synthesis of physical parameter-controllable impact sounds is essential for sound source identification. In this study, an impact sound synthesis model of a cylinder is proposed based on discrete state space(DSS) method and modal extension method(MEM). This model is comprised of the whole three processes of the physical interaction, i.e., the Hertz contact process, the transient structural response process, and the sound radiation process. Firstly,the modal expanded DSS equations of the contact system are constructed and the transient structural response of the cylinder is obtained. Then the impact sound of the cylinder is acquired using improved discrete Raleigh integral. Finally, the proposed model is verified by comparing with existing models. The results show that the proposed impact sound synthesis model is more accurate and efficient than the existing methods and easy to be extended to the impact sound synthesis of other structures.     

Relation between perceived voice register and flow glottogram parameters in males

The perception of modal and falsetto registers was analyzed in a material consisting of a total of 104 vowel sounds sung by 13 choir singers, 52 sung in modal register, and 52 in falsetto register. These vowel sounds were classified by 16 expert listeners in a forced choice test and the number of votes for modal was compared to the voice source parameters: (1) closed quotient (Q(closed)), (2) level difference between the two lowest source spectrum partials (H1-H2), (3) AC amplitude, (4) maximum flow declination rate (MFDR), and (5) normalized amplitude quotient (NAQ, AC amplitude/MFDR(*) fundamental frequency). Tones with a high value of Q(closed) and low values of H1-H2 and of NAQ were typically associated with high number of votes for modal register, and vice versa, Q(closed) showing the strongest correlation. Some singer subjects produced tones that could not be classified as either falsetto or modal register, suggesting that classification of registers is not always feasible.     

Regularised finite element model updating using measured incomplete modal data

This paper presents an effective approach for directly updating finite element model from measured incomplete vibration modal data with regularised algorithms. The proposed method is based on the relationship between the perturbation of structural parameters such as stiffness change and the modal data measurements of the tested structure such as measured mode shape readings. In order to adjust structural parameters at detailed locations, structural updating parameters will be selected at critical point level to reflect the modelling errors at the connections of structural elements. These updating parameters are then evaluated by an iterative or a direct solution procedure, which gives optimised solutions in the least squares sense without requiring an optimisation technique. In order to reduce the influence of modal measurement uncertainty, the Tikhonov regularisation method incorporating the L-curve criterion is employed to produce reliable solutions for the chosen updating parameters. Numerical simulation investigations and experimental studies for the laboratory tested space steel frame structure are undertaken to verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed methods for adjusting the stiffness at the joints of structural members. The results demonstrate that the proposed methods provide reliable estimates of finite element model updating using the measured incomplete modal data.     

An impact excitation system for repeatable,high-bandwidth modal testing of miniature structures

Miniature components and devices are increasingly seen in a myriad of applications. In general, the dynamic behavior of miniature devices is critical to their functionality and performance. However, modal testing of miniature structures poses many challenges. This paper presents a design and evaluation of an impact excitation system (IES) for repeatable, high-bandwidth, controlled-force modal testing of miniature structures. Furthermore, a dynamic model of the system is derived and experimentally validated to enable the identification of the system parameters that yield single-hit impacts with desired bandwidth and force magnitude. The system includes a small instrumented impact tip attached to a custom designed flexure-based body, an automated electromagnetic release mechanism, and various precision positioners. The excitation bandwidth and the impact force magnitude can be controlled by selecting the system parameters. The dynamic model of the system includes the structural dynamics of the flexure-based body, the electromagnetic force and the associated eddy-current damping, and the impact event. A validation study showed an excellent match between the model simulations and experiments in terms of impact force and bandwidth. The model is then used to create process maps that relate the system parameters to the number of hits (single vs. multiple), the impact force magnitudes and the excitation bandwidths. These process maps can be used to select system parameters or predict system response for a given set of parameters. A set of experiments is conducted to compare the performances of the IES and a (manual) miniature impact hammer. It is concluded that the IES significantly improves repeatability in terms of the impact bandwidth, location, and force magnitude, while providing a high excitation-bandwidth and excellent coherence values. The application of the IES is demonstrated through modal testing of a miniature contact-probe system.     

数控裁剪机切割刀壳体振动噪声预测分析*

高频往复式切割刀是柔性材料数控裁剪机的核心部件。该文对切割刀壳体的振动噪声改进措施进行研究。首先对切割刀进行刚体动力学分析,获取其所受动载荷情况,并通过数值计算验证了切割刀刚体动力学模型的可靠性。其次,基于有限元法获取切割刀壳体模态特性,并通过锤击激振实验验证了有限元模型的准确性。然后基于模态仿真结果进行谐响应分析,将计算得到的频域动载荷施加至切割刀壳体各螺栓固定处,获取结构加速度响应频谱,结合振动响应结果,对壳体进行声固耦合分析,并进行实验对比,验证了分析方法的准确性。最后,计算不同的阻尼措施对壳体噪声辐射的影响,为切割刀的减振降噪提供参考。     

Subjective evaluations of sound radiated by impacted plates, using the design of experiments method

This study combines physical and subjective approaches to evaluate the sound quality of impacted plates. A numerical model, based on the Hertz law of contact, has been used to determine the sound pressure level at any point in space resulting from an impact. Sounds synthesized using this model and those from experiments can then be exploited in a physical analysis and/or a subjective analysis of the effects associated with variations in parameters. Here the influence of certain physical parameters on the sound perception of impacted plates is evaluated through a design of experiments method and a subjective test of preference. The subjective test is based on an estimate of preference between two pairs of synthetic sounds by varying several structural parameters at the same time. This differs from other studies that vary only one parameter at a time and fix the other parameters.     

Exploratory laboratory studies of the relative aversiveness of traffic sounds.

Two experiments examined the acoustical correlates of traffic sound aversiveness. In experimnet I all pairs of 13 45-s traffic sound recordings were presented; subjects chose the sound of each pair to which they would rather be exposed and judged the relative similarity of the sounds. The energy equivalent sound level, Leq, accounted for choice and similarity judgments better than any other noise index, and there was no substantial improvement in ability to account for subjective judgments when other indices were used in conjunction with Leq. In experiment II subjects judged the same sounds which had been made equal in Leq level. Responses were nonrandom, showing that Leq is not the only subjectively important information in traffic sounds, but no acoustical measure employed in the study captured that information. Instead, two subjective measures of information content accounted best for the data of experiment II. Response data for the equal Leq sounds were less structured than for the sounds differing in Leq. The data of the two experiments were statistically related; it is argued that the data sets were related via the measure of information content. Experiment I replicated a previously reported study, while experiment II failed to replicate the results of a second study.     

Modeling the perception of concurrent vowels: vowels with the same fundamental frequency

The ability of listeners to identify pairs of simultaneous synthetic vowels has been investigated in the first of a series of studies on the extraction of phonetic information from multiple-talker waveforms. Both members of the vowel pair had the same onset and offset times and a constant fundamental frequency of 100 Hz. Listeners identified both vowels with an accuracy significantly greater than chance. The pattern of correct responses and confusions was similar for vowels generated by (a) cascade formant synthesis and (b) additive harmonic synthesis that replaced each of the lowest three formants with a single pair of harmonics of equal amplitude. In order to choose an appropriate model for describing listeners' performance, four pattern-matching procedures were evaluated. Each predicted the probability that (i) any individual vowel would be selected as one of the two responses, and (ii) any pair of vowels would be selected. These probabilities were estimated from measures of the similarities of the auditory excitation patterns of the double vowels to those of single-vowel reference patterns. Up to 88% of the variance in individual responses and up to 67% of the variance in pairwise responses could be accounted for by procedures that highlighted spectral peaks and shoulders in the excitation pattern. Procedures that assigned uniform weight to all regions of the excitation pattern gave poorer predictions. These findings support the hypothesis that the auditory system pays particular attention to the frequencies of spectral peaks, and possibly also of shoulders, when identifying vowels. One virtue of this strategy is that the spectral peaks and shoulders can indicate the frequencies of formants when other aspects of spectral shape are obscured by competing sounds.     

基于光谱技术的双孢蘑菇新鲜度量化检测技术研究

双孢蘑菇质地柔嫩、营养丰富,具有很好的降血压、降血脂、消炎护肝等多种保健价值,其新鲜度是反映内外部品质的重要指标之一。目前双孢蘑菇新鲜度鉴别大多依据其外观品质变化（褐变）,缺乏精准的量化评价指标与方法,因此提出了以贮藏天数为新鲜度检测的量化指标,并利用近红外光谱技术对双孢蘑菇新鲜度进行检测分析。依据存储天数不同,将双孢蘑菇样本分为1~5组,每组40个样本,依次采集每组双孢蘑菇的近红外光谱数据。针对采集的原始光谱数据,首先选用卷积平滑滤波（SG）与多元散射校正（MSC）消除原始光谱噪声、基线平移以及光散射的影响,并选取399.81~999.81 nm的光谱波段作为数据处理范围;然后分别使用主成分分析（PCA）和连续投影算法（SPA）进行光谱降维和特征波长选择,继而建立极限学习机（ELM）分类模型;同时考虑到ELM模型中初始值对分类准确率影响较大,分别选用粒子群优化算法（PSO）、海鸥优化算法（SOA）对ELM中初始权值及阈值进行寻优,形成PSO-ELM,SOA-ELM优化组合分类模型;最后分别将全光谱、提取主成分以及所选的特征波长｛556.87,445.51,481.15,885.10,802.25,720.90,861.34,909.79,924.44,873.17 nm｝输入到分类模型中,建立不同输入、不同分类模型的双孢菇新鲜度检测模型。最终试验结果表明,当ELM为分类模型,以全光谱、主成分以及特征波长为输入时的预测精度分别为75%,95%,88%;以SPA优选特征波长作为输入的PSO-ELM、SOA-ELM分类模型训练集精度为96.25%,93.25%,预测集精度为92.5%,94%。可知,SPA波长选择算法可以有效降低光谱信息中存在的冗余信息,加快建模效率,同时海鸥优化算法能较好的优化ELM分类模型的初始参数,分类精度较ELM模型提高了6.8%,同时不产生过拟合现象。因此,利用光谱特征可以快速、准确无损的识别双孢蘑菇的新鲜度,研究结果为便携式双孢蘑菇新鲜度快速无损检测设备的开发提供了理论依据。     

32级模块化Marx发生器机芯模态分析

模态分析可以获得结构的动特性参数。对32级模块化Marx发生器机芯进行了力学特性仿真分析和模态试验,用以评估Marx发生器的力学环境适应性。首先,建立了模块化Marx机芯的有限元模型,获得了初步振型;其次,在自由边界条件下分别开展了Marx机芯整体模态试验、局部模态试验和传递特性试验,得到了整体和局部结构的模态参数。研究表明,模块化Marx机芯在23.58 Hz处出现整体一阶扭转;机芯局部结构固有频率较高;机芯在x,y,z三个方向的振动传递率的范围分别为5～15,6～10和10～35,为后续工程中Marx发生器机芯的针对性设计提供了参考。     

Improved multimode fibre link BER calculations due to modal noise and non-self-pulsating laser diodes

A modal noise model is presented that combines many features of previous theories such as varying fibre contrast, exponential noise p.d.f. and Gaussian noise p.d.f. The model also includes a new feature: the ability to treat multiple lossy connectors in the same link. This model is verified through extensive experimentation and is shown to be conservative, i.e. predicted noise penalties are larger than those observed. Using the model, modal noise penalties are predicted for a number of different link configurations, and laser parameters that result in acceptable amounts of modal noise are identified. The model is also demonstrated as a design tool for determining laser parameters that result in acceptable amounts of modal noise in typical links.     

Newborns' head orientation toward trains of brief sounds

Four experiments assessed the importance of stimulus number, repetition rate, and duration for newborns' head orientation toward brief sounds and related those parameters to the critical ones found for adults. Infants' responses to various trains of repeated 14-ms rattle sounds were compared with those to a 10-s rattle sound, known to elicit head orientation. Directional responses did not differ from the standard when rattle bursts were repeated at a rate of 20 per second for 1 s (experiment 1). Responding did differ from the standard and deteriorated to chance levels when either the number of moderately paced (6/s) stimulus bursts was decreased to six or fewer (experiments 2 and 3) or the duration of rapidly repeated (24/s) bursts was shortened to 500 ms (experiments 4A and 4B). These results suggest that newborns' head orientation depends, in part, upon the number of stimulus bursts and stimulus duration.     

Nonlinear finite element model updating of an infilled frame based on identified time-varying modal parameters during an earthquake

A model updating methodology is proposed for calibration of nonlinear finite element (FE) models simulating the behavior of real-world complex civil structures subjected to seismic excitations. In the proposed methodology, parameters of hysteretic material models assigned to elements (or substructures) of a nonlinear FE model are updated by minimizing an objective function. The objective function used in this study is the misfit between the experimentally identified time-varying modal parameters of the structure and those of the FE model at selected time instances along the response time history. The time-varying modal parameters are estimated using the deterministic–stochastic subspace identification method which is an input–output system identification approach. The performance of the proposed updating method is evaluated through numerical and experimental applications on a large-scale three-story reinforced concrete frame with masonry infills. The test structure was subjected to seismic base excitations of increasing amplitude at a large outdoor shake-table. A nonlinear FE model of the test structure has been calibrated to match the time-varying modal parameters of the test structure identified from measured data during a seismic base excitation. The accuracy of the proposed nonlinear FE model updating procedure is quantified in numerical and experimental applications using different error metrics. The calibrated models predict the exact simulated response very accurately in the numerical application, while the updated models match the measured response reasonably well in the experimental application.     

几类典型环境声的主观评价及感知特性分析

近年来,通过“注入”调控声以降低交通噪声烦恼感的声频注入法受到广泛关注。以交通噪声调控研究为背景,通过成对比较评价了4类典型声音(实验一)和4类典型交通噪声(实验二)的烦恼感。结果表明,有调声(纯音和复音)烦恼度最高,自然声最低(海潮声最佳),蓝色噪声是仅次于海潮声令人感觉舒适的声音;被试对交通噪声和白噪声的评价存在明显的分类偏好。分析心理声学特征发现人对声音的感知依赖于多方面因素,但声刺激的某一因素(如粗糙度或音调特别高)特别突出则会引起极大的反感。构建不相似度二维感知空间,维度1反映了声音类型间的差异,维度2表征了被试对不同类型声音的烦恼度评价;并且通过相关分析发现它们与谱结构参量相关性较强。接下来的研究中,可以通过调整交通噪声的谱下降值和时域上升时间等参量使其谱结构更接近于自然声,从而降低噪声烦恼度。     

基于平板冲击声的声源特性表征及自动识别*

以平板结构导纳函数为纽带,建立冲击声信号特征与声源特性之间的关联,获得与声源属性密切相关的特征用于目标分类。针对四边简支矩形被击板,借助信号参数识别算法获得与声源物理属性有关的6维导纳特征,并从冲击声样本中提取80维音色特征,将音色特征和导纳特征做相关性分析,获得与声源物理属性相关的信号特征集。利用BP神经网络进行分类,结果表明,当采用与特定声源物理属性相关的信号特征子集时,分类效果达到同组最优。     

Parameter fitting for piano sound synthesis by physical modeling

A difficult issue in the synthesis of piano tones by physical models is to choose the values of the parameters governing the hammer-string model. In fact, these parameters are hard to estimate from static measurements, causing the synthesis sounds to be unrealistic. An original approach that estimates the parameters of a piano model, from the measurement of the string vibration, by minimizing a perceptual criterion is proposed. The minimization process that was used is a combination of a gradient method and a simulated annealing algorithm, in order to avoid convergence problems in case of multiple local minima. The criterion, based on the tristimulus concept, takes into account the spectral energy density in three bands, each allowing particular parameters to be estimated. The optimization process has been run on signals measured on an experimental setup. The parameters thus estimated provided a better sound quality than the one obtained using a global energetic criterion. Both the sound's attack and its brightness were better preserved. This quality gain was obtained for parameter values very close to the initial ones, showing that only slight deviations are necessary to make synthetic sounds closer to the real ones.     

Material sound source localization through headphones

In the present paper a study of sound localization is carried out, considering two different sounds emitted from different hit materials (wood and bongo) as well as a Delta sound. The motivation of this research is to study how humans localize sounds coming from different materials, with the purpose of a future implementation of the acoustic sounds with better localization features in navigation aid systems or training audio-games suited for blind people. Wood and bongo sounds are recorded after hitting two objects made of these materials. Afterwards, they are analysed and processed. On the other hand, the Delta sound (click) is generated by using the Adobe Audition software, considering a frequency of 44.1 kHz. All sounds are analysed and convolved with previously measured non-individual Head-Related Transfer Functions both for an anechoic environment and for an environment with reverberation. The First Choice method is used in this experiment. Subjects are asked to localize the source position of the sound listened through the headphones, by using a graphic user interface. The analyses of the recorded data reveal that no significant differences are obtained either when considering the nature of the sounds (wood, bongo, Delta) or their environmental context (with or without reverberation). The localization accuracies for the anechoic sounds are: wood 90.19%, bongo 92.96% and Delta sound 89.59%, whereas for the sounds with reverberation the results are: wood 90.59%, bongo 92.63% and Delta sound 90.91%. According to these data, we can conclude that even when considering the reverberation effect, the localization accuracy does not significantly increase.