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Applied Acoustics: Qibo Mao, Stanislaw Pietrzko

A possible acoustic design approach for multi-purpose auditoria suitable for both speech and music. In several auditoria, it has been observed that the reverberation time is longer than expected and that the cause is a horizontal reverberant field established in the region near the ceiling, a field which is remote from the sound absorbing audience. This has been observed in the Boston Symphony Hall, Massachusetts, and the Stadthalle Göttingen, Germany. Subjective remarks on their acoustics sugge

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A possible acoustic design approach for multi-purpose auditoria suitable for both speech and music. In several auditoria, it has been observed that the reverberation time is longer than expected and that the cause is a horizontal reverberant field established in the region near the ceiling, a field which is remote from the sound absorbing audience. This has been observed in the Boston Symphony Hall, Massachusetts, and the Stadthalle Göttingen, Germany. Subjective remarks on their acoustics sugge

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Applied Acoustics 71 (2010) 32–38

Contents lists available at ScienceDirect

Applied Acoustics
journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apacoust

Experimental study for control of sound transmission through double


glazed window using optimally tuned Helmholtz resonators
Qibo Mao *, Stanislaw Pietrzko
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t

Article history: This paper presents an experimental investigation of passively control of sound transmission through a
Received 4 February 2009 double glazed window by using arrangement of Helmholtz resonators (HRs), which are commonly used
Received in revised form 30 June 2009 for narrow band control application. The laboratory experiments were performed placing the window
Accepted 10 July 2009
between reverberation chamber and anechoic chamber. The window was subject to diffuse field, approx-
Available online 12 August 2009
imate normal wave and oblique wave acoustic excitations. Three sets of HRs were designed and installed
in cavity of window. The sound control performances at far-field were measured. The control perfor-
Keywords:
mances from varying the number of HRs, incident acoustic field, excitation sources (band-limited white
Sound transmission
Double glazed window
noise and traffic noise examples) are presented and discussed in detail. It is shown that a considerable
Helmholtz resonators reduction of the transmitted sound pressure levels has been achieved around the mass–air–mass reso-
nance frequency (50–120 Hz). The obtained reductions in the transmitted sound pressure illustrate the
potentials of HRs for improving the sound insulation characteristics of double glazed window. The exper-
imental results also indicate that only tuning the HRs to the mass–air–mass resonance frequency does
not guarantee the best possible insulation of the sound transmission.
Ó 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

1. Introduction microphones positions inside a double glazed window for feedfor-


ward control as well as feedback control. However, some unre-
The double wall partitions, which provide good sound insula- solved problems seriously compromise efficient real active
tion, are important parts of modern lightweight structures such control systems. One problem is the internal complexity of the
as aircraft fuselages, car doors as well as windows and lightweight double wall partition which makes the implementation of standard
partitions walls in buildings. However, one drawback of such struc- control tools difficult. Additionally, real boundary conditions intro-
tures is a decrease in low-frequency transmission loss around the duce non-uniform damping, which can reduce the robustness of
mass–air–mass resonance (double wall structure resonance). Here control system. Thus, technical solutions based on active control
it can become even poorer than that of a single plate [1,2]. Over the still have to be improved.
past decades, there have been a numerous amount of analytical Another possible solution is to apply an arrangement of opti-
and experimental researches on active control of sound transmis- mally tuned Helmholtz resonators (HRs) to increase the acoustical
sion through double plate structures, and significant gains were damping level inside the cavity between the double plates. The
obtained by using the active noise control (ANC) approach [1–6] Helmholtz resonator is very efficient in controlling the noise over
as well as active structural acoustic control (ASAC) approach a narrow frequency band and has been applied successfully in
[2,7,8]. For example, in Ref. [2], a modal model is derived from many acoustic enclosures [9–14].
the partial differential equations of the subsystems. And a Mason and Fahy [15] proposed to control sound transmission
thorough understanding of control theory, potential actuators through an infinite double plate using HRs. In these references,
and sensors, and possible complications encountered with active the HRs were tuned to the natural frequency of the target mode.
sound or vibration control is provided. In Ref. [4], based on This implies implicitly that the HR minimises the response of a
modal coupling theory, a coupled FE–BE (finite element and particular mode; the HR’s influence on the neighbouring modes
boundary element) model was developed to predict and control is neglected. This methodology could work well for an infinite dou-
the coupled vibro-acoustic behaviour of double plate structures. ble plate system [15]. However, in general, a finite double plate
Refs. [5,6] investigated the influence of different loudspeaker and system is more complex than an infinite system and requires some
analytical improvements. A theoretically model for passively con-
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +41 44 823 4527; fax: +41 44 823 4793. trol finite double wall partitions using HRs was introduced recently
E-mail address: [email protected] (Q. Mao). [12]. The basic idea of this approach is rather straightforward: the

0003-682X/$ - see front matter Ó 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2009.07.007

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