A study on the acoustic performance of an absorptive silencer applying the optimal arrangement of absorbing materials

Dongheon Kang; Haesang Yang; Woojae Seong

doi:10.7776/ASK.2024.43.3.261

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A study on the acoustic performance of an absorptive silencer applying the optimal arrangement of absorbing materials 흡음재 최적 배치를 적용한 흡음형 소음기의 음향성능 연구

31 May 2024. pp. 261-269

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Abstract

In this paper, the acoustic performance of an absorptive silencer was enhanced by optimizing an arrangement of multi-layered absorbing materials. The acoustic performance of the silencer was evaluated through transmission loss, and finite element method-based numerical analysis program was employed to calculate the transmission loss. Polyurethane, a porous elastic material frequently used in absorptive silencers, was employed as the absorbing material. The Biot-Allard model was applied, assuming that air is filled inside the polyurethane. By setting the frequency range of interest up to the 2 kHz and the acoustic performance affecting properties of the absorbing materials were investigated when it was composed as a single layer. And the acoustic performance of the silencers with the single and multi-layered absorbing materials was compared with each other based on polyurethane material properties. Subsequently, the arrangement of the absorbing materials was optimized by applying the Nelder-Mead method. The results demonstrated that the average transmission loss improved compared to the single-layered absorptive silencer.

Keywords

Absorptive silencer

Acoustic performance

Absorbing materials

Optimization

본 논문에서는 흡음형 소음기의 음향성능을 향상시키기 위해 다층 흡음재 배치 순서를 최적화하였다. 소음기의 음향성능은 투과손실로 판단하였으며, 투과손실을 계산하기 위해 유한요소법 기반 수치해석 프로그램을 사용하였다. 흡음재는 흡음형 소음기에서 많이 사용되는 다공탄성 물질인 폴리우레탄을 사용하였으며, 내부에 공기가 흐르는 상황을 가정하여 Biot-Allard 모델을 적용하였다. 2 kHz 대역까지 관심주파수 영역을 설정하여 흡음재가 단층으로 구성되어 있을 때 음향성능에 영향을 주는 물성치를 확인하였으며, 폴리우레탄 물성치를 바탕으로 단층 및 다층 흡음재를 가진 소음기의 음향성능을 서로 비교하였다. 이후 Nelder-Mead 방법을 적용하여 소음기 내 다층 흡음재의 배치 순서를 최적화하였으며, 단층 흡음형 소음기에 비해 평균 투과손실이 증가하는 것을 확인하였다.

키워드

흡음형 소음기

음향성능

흡음재

최적화

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Publisher :The Acoustical Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국음향학회
Journal Title :The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
Journal Title(Ko) :한국음향학회지
Volume : 43
No :3
Pages :261-269
Received Date : 2024-03-12
Revised Date : 2024-05-13
Accepted Date : 2024-05-22
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7776/ASK.2024.43.3.261

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea 한국음향학회지 ISSN:1225-4428(Print) 2287-3775(Online)

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