Identification of Acoustic Modeling Parameters of Porous and Solid Materials
During the process of designing acoustic treatments including porous materials, the definition of the modeling parameters of these materials is a critical step.
FOAM-X allows you to extract the following parameters:
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Works with all standards related to impedance and transmission tube
Characterizes several types of open-cell porous and solid materials
Foam | Fibrous | Perforated sheet | Resistive screen | Fabric | Isotropic membrane
Characterizes three different types of structure
Rigid | Limp | Elastic
Considers the boundary conditions of the assembly of the material
Laterally bonded | Laterally sliding | Peripheral air leaks
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Identification of Acoustic Modeling Parameters
- Calculates the mean and standard deviation of the data set.
- Corrects tube and measurement conditions (temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative humidity).
- The user can provide parameters to improve convergence (density, resistivity, porosity, tortuosity and other parameters).
- Identification according to three types of skeleton (rigid, flexible or elastic).
- Identification over a range of frequencies (min, max).
Display, Simulation and Sensitivity Analysis
- Validation of the parameters obtained by comparison of simulations using analytical or numerical poroelastic or solid models (finite elements) with impedance/transmission tube measurements.
- Plots both predicted and measured data (if available) of:
- Export data to csv file or clipboard,
- Simulates the effects of boundary conditions and lateral acoustic leakage in tubes by the axisymetric finite element method (axiFEM).
- Predicts all the acoustic properties in the case of excitation by a plane wave of normal incidence such as: absorption coefficient, attenuation index, surface and characteristic impedance, number of complex wave, effective dynamic density and effective bulk modulus.
- Takes into account:
Database
- Retains materials identified by FOAM-X or your own method.
- Searches for materials according to different criteria (e.g. price, porosity, resistivity to the passage of air, thickness, etc.)
- Compares two materials.