• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.261-269
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• 2024

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.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1522-1529
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• 1991

본 연구에서는 균질판, 공기층, 흡음재등이 부착된 다층벽에 대한 음향투과손 실을 전기계의 희로망이론에 근거한 음향4단자법으로 해석하는 이론을 제안하고 여러 가지 다층벽에 적용하여 실측치와 비교.검토하여 제안한 계산법의 타당성을 확인하고 저 한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.375-388
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• 2022

This paper deals with the process of obtaining sound transmission loss of a cylindrical silencer lined with multi-layered poroelastic sound absorbing materials. The Biot model and the Johnson-Champoux-Allard-Lafarge (JCAL) model were used to deal with waves propagating in multi-layered poroelastic materials. The boundary conditions required for analysis of the silencer were obtained and the numerical process of finding modes was explained. A numerical experiment was conducted on the 2-layered silencer using the modes and the transmission loss converged with the first 12 modes. Finally, the mode matching method proposed in this research was validated by being compared with the results calculated from Finite Element Method (FEM) about different kinds of sound absorbing materials.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.1262-1269
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• 2008

Though multilayered foam-panel structures have been widely used to reduce sound transmission in various fields, most of the previous works to design them were conducted by repeated analyses or experiments based on initially given configurations or sequences. Therefore, it was difficult to obtain an optimal sequence of multilayered foam-panel structure yielding superior sound isolation capability. In this work, we propose a new design method to sequence a multi-panel structure lined with a poroelastic material having maximized sound transmission loss. Being formulated as a one-dimensional topology optimization problem fur a given target frequency, the optimal sequencing of panel-poroelastic layers is systematically carried out in an iterative manner. In this method, a panel layer is expressed as a limiting case of a poroelastic layer to facilitate the optimization process. This means that main material properties of a poroelastic material are treated as interpolated functions of design variable. The designed sequences of panel-poroelastic multilayer were shown to be significantly affected by the target frequencies; more panels were obtained at higher target frequency. The sound transmission loss of the system was calculated by the transfer matrix derived from Biot's theory.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.131-136
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• 2004

스피커는 진동판의 크기와 형태 외에도 소재 또는 내부구조에 따라 구동 특성이 달라진다. 본 연구에서는 동일한 신호가 입력되는 두 진동판 사이에 공동을 형성시킨 경우, 다공성 흡음재를 삽입한 경우 스피커의 특성 변화를 관측하였다. 특히, 다공성 흡음재를 삽입한 경우, 다공성 물질의 체적을 동일하게 하고 진동판 표면 상태에 따른 영향과 진동판 상의 진동 전달 경로에 의한 영향을 제거하여 내부물질에 따른 특성의 변화를 측정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.938-941
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• 2006

We present a new design method of one-dimensional multi-layered acoustic foams for transmission loss maximization by topology optimization. Multi-layered acoustic foam sequences consisting of acoustic air layers and poroelastic material layers are designed for target frequency values. For successful topology optimization design of multi-layered acoustic foams, the material interpolation concept of topology optimization is adopted. In doing so, an acoustic air layer is modeled as a limiting poroelastic material layer; acoustic air and poroelastic material are handled by a single set of governing equations based on Biot's theory. For efficient analysis of a specific multi-layered foam appearing during optimization, we do not solve the differential equations directly, but we use an efficient transfer matrix approach which can be derived from Biot's theory. Through some numerical case studies, the proposed design method for finding optimal multi-layer sequencing is validated.