Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Air ducts – Noise ; Noise control'

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2006.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 77 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77).

The objective of this doctoral thesis is to study three different innovative noise control techniques in ducts namely: acoustic metamaterials, porous absorbers and microperforates. There has been a lot of research done on all these three topics in the context of duct acoustics. This research will assess the potential of the acoustic metamaterial technique and compare to the use of conventional methods using microperforated plates and/or porous materials.  The objective of the metamaterials part is to develop a physical approach to model and synthesize bulk moduli and densities to feasibly control the wave propagation pattern, creating quiet zones in the targeted fluid domain. This is achieved using an array of locally resonant metallic patches. In addition to this, a novel thin slow sound material is also proposed in the acoustic metamaterial part of this thesis. This slow sound material is a quasi-labyrinthine structure flush mounted to a duct, comprising of coplanar quarter wavelength resonators that aims to slow the speed of sound at selective resonance frequencies. A good agreement between theoretical analysis and experimental measurements is demonstrated. The second technique is based on acoustic porous foam and it is about modeling and characterization of a novel porous metallic foam absorber inside ducts. This material proved to be a similar or better sound absorber compared to the conventional porous absorbers, but with robust and less degradable properties. Material characterization of this porous absorber from a simple transfer matrix measurement is proposed.The last part of this research is focused on impedance of perforates with grazing flow on both sides. Modeling of the double sided grazing flow impedance is done using a modified version of an inverse semi-analytical technique. A minimization scheme is used to find the liner impedance value in the complex plane to match the calculated sound field to the measured one at the microphone positions.

QC 20160923

A new active-passive approach for the control of noise radiated from a small axial fan was investigated. The approach involved the installation of an axial fan into a short duct with both passive and active noise control functions. First, a systematic methodology for the analytical modeling of finite-length ducts with multiple discontinuities was formulated. The procedure involved the modeling of a duct as a collection of simple duct sections, which were interconnected at multiple junctions. Analytical studies have shown that a short lined duct provides passive noise reduction effects through the mass-loading effect of the duct air volume at low frequencies and the sound absorption by a passive liner at high frequencies. It was also shown that active control can provide further noise attenuations at low-to-mid frequencies, thereby enhancing the overall noise control performance. Two alternate designs of active-passive noise control fan duct were considered. One was a simple non- segmented duct with a 2x2 active control and the other was an internally segmented duct with an 8x8 active control. It was indicated that the latter design possesses a significantly higher global noise control potential than the former with respect to both bandwidth and attenuation level. This was attributed to the reduction of the unwanted pressure contributions from the duct cross modes through the high frequency shifting of the associated cut-on frequencies. The experimental validation of the noise control approach was also carried out. An active-passive noise control fan duct incorporating the segmented duct design with 8x8 active control was constructed in conjunction with a hybrid feedforward-feedback control system. Experimental results have shown significant reductions in the total fan noise power associated with the first four BPF tones by the feedforward control and the broadband fan noise power by the feedback control. The overall active-passive noise control characteristics were observed to be in accordance with the analytical results.
Ph. D.

Noise between 25-500 Hz is a common problem in Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Handbook lists values of end reflection loss (ERL), a frequency dependent parameter describing energy reflected back up a duct at a termination impedance, to help engineers design and account for noise. The ASHRAE Handbook does not account for common termination variations and only lists ERL values using octave bands down to 63 Hz. This thesis experimentally determined the ERL of a variety of rectangular duct configurations and termination conditions between 25-500 Hz. This research also compared experimental ERL results with analytic predictions and ASHRAE Handbook values. Seven duct sizes were tested, from 6X6 to 18X54 inches. Duct termination baffle hardness was varied between acoustically hard (plywood) and soft (ceiling tiles) for the 6X6, 6X10, and 6X18 ducts. Five duct termination distances above the termination baffle were tested, between flush and 1D for the 6X10 and 6X18 ducts and between flush and 5D for the 6X6 duct, where D equals the duct s effective diameter. Diffusers and flex duct configurations were installed at the end of the rigid duct to test their effect on ERL on the 6X6, 6X10, and 6X18 ducts. ERL was determined using an adaptation of the ASTM E1050 Standard, an application of the two-microphone impedance tube method. Experimental results closely conformed to analytic predictions and are an improvement over ASHRAE Handbook ERL values. The results indicate that baffle hardness has a negligible impact on ERL, which contradicts the ASHRAE assumption that diffusers that terminate in a suspended lay-in acoustic ceiling can be treated as terminating in free space. Termination distance above the baffle has a negligible impact on ERL at distances less than six inches for the 6X6 duct. Termination distances above the baffle greater than six inches exhibit limited free space ERL behavior for the 6X6 duct. The use of flex duct greatly reduces low frequency ERL and this is not accounted for by the ASHRAE Handbook. The impact from flex duct usage also negates any influence from downstream termination variations.

The loudspeakers used in active noise reduction (ANR) headsets are generally identical to loudspeakers used in commercial headphones. Unfortunately, the frequency response characteristics of these loudspeakers are not particularly well suited for open-air active noise control (ANC). Open-air headsets float outside the ear with no contact between the system and the user and allow for regular conversation with others in the environment. This study has identified three limitations on the closed-loop performance of open-air headsets: the distribution of gain and phase in the loudspeaker's open-loop frequency response function, manufacturing variations in loudspeakers that can deviate from design specifications by up to 40%, and the variations in acoustic impedance coupling (ear-to-speaker) among users. This thesis explores the mechanisms that underlie these limitations with the goal of designing open-air headsets that are robust to manufacturing and user variations. Methods are introduced on ways to minimize the effects of manufacturing and user variations and are proven by experiment. With these variations minimized, the controller's design is only limited by the frequency response of the loudspeaker. A comprehensive examination of techniques to model moving-coil loudspeakers is presented followed by detailed studies on how each parameter affects the system's frequency response. A review of frequency domain control system design is then included to help the reader understand loop-shaping techniques. Finally, a compensator is designed for an open-air ANR headset using loop-shaping techniques and the robustness of the closed-loop performance is verified experimentally.
Master of Science

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
Aircraft noise is a major obstacle to the growth of aviation. This thesis presents an adaptive onboard real-time optimization algorithm and an Air Traffic Control simulation model that can minimize the aircraft approach noise and meet air traffic control targets and restrictions. The adaptive real-time optimization algorithm uses dynamic programming, nonlinear optimization, and receding horizon control to generate approach procedures. The resulting noise abatement trajectories compensate for environmental uncertainties, provide more flexibility to air traffic controllers and pilots, and improve airport efficiency while lowering community noise. The Air Traffic Control simulation model simulates a fleet approach with noise abatement approaches. Three different status displays are tested and compared in the simulation, and the optimal displays for controller are explored in the thesis.
by Feng Zou.
S.M.

In the absence of National Standards for Bridge Design in Indonesia, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Indonesian and Australian Governments which provided for the preparation of "A Bridge Design Manual" as a component of a comprehensive Bridge Management System by Australian consultants and funded jointly by both governments. The project began in 1989 and was completed in 1992. It is anticipated that the following benefits will flow to the Indonesian people from the use of this Manual: reduced bridge construction costs because of a general improvement in design quality leading to fewer contract variations; and reduced future maintenance costs because of improved design practice; and improvement in the number and quality of indigenous Indonesian bridge engineers because of the availability of a comprenhensive source of bridge design information. The "Bridge Design Manual" is based on Limit States philosophy, with design procedures uniquely written in a step-by-step and task-by-task format for ease of use. These design procedures cater for the extreme design environment of the Indonesian archipelago which includes seismic loads, monsoonal runoff, severe stream degradation and aggradation and variable construction quality. During the final phase of the project the "Bridge Design Manual" had gained sufficient acceptance within the Department of works to begin the process of being edited into Draft National Standards (SNI).

The application of the Hershcel-Quincke (HQ) tube as a noise reduction device for one-dimensional plane-wave sound fields has been studied in great detail in previous years. In this thesis, an analytical technique is developed to investigate the potential of the HQ tube concept to control higher-order duct modes. This analytical method involves modeling the tube-duct interfaces as finite piston sources, which couple the acoustic field inside the main duct with the acoustic field within the HQ tube(s). The acoustic field within the HQ tube is modeled as plane-waves and the acoustic field within the main duct is modeled by expanding the sound field in terms of the higher-order modes. This model is then used to investigate the noise reduction mechanisms behind the attenuation of higher-order modes. These mechanisms involve both the reflection of the incident wave as well as the reconstruction and recombination of the modal content of the incident disturbance into other modes. The effects of the modal content of the disturbance along with the HQ tube geometric parameters, such as tube axial position, length, distance between interfaces, and cross-sectional area, are studied with respect to the frequencies of attenuation and the reduction obtained. These results show the potential of the Herschel-Quincke tube concept to reduce higher-order modes in ducts.
Master of Science

A malha urbana das grandes cidades tem sido ocupada, principalmente nos grandes centros, por vários edifícios corporativos, localizados em pólos administrativos onde os ruídos urbanos são constantes. Além dos ruídos externos a que o edifício fica exposto, existem também os ruídos internos, ambos impactando no conforto e produtividade de seus ocupantes, trazendo problemas para a empresa. Tendo a situação brevemente descrita acima como preocupante, este trabalho tem por objetivo geral, investigar quais materiais industrializados para tratamento acústico e quais técnicas são utilizadas, para redução e controle, da propagação de ruídos aéreos em edifícios de escritórios, nos últimos dez anos. Incluem-se assim o estudo e apresentação das características técnicas para especificação de forros acústicos, barreiras acústicas, tratamento de paredes, pisos, layout e mobiliário, vidros acústicos, tratamento dos ruídos gerados pelo ar condicionado e mascaramento sonoro. O objetivo específico neste trabalho é analisar os materiais utilizados para tratamento acústico, baseado nos índices de classificação acústica, seja este de absorção ou isolamento, com relação ao desempenho do material. São eles: NRC (Índice de Redução Sonora), \'alfa\' (Coeficiente de Absorção), \'alfa\'w (Coeficiente de Absorção Sonora Ponderado) Rw (Índice de Redução Acústica) e STC (Classe de Transmissão Sonora). Esta pesquisa tem como resultado a centralização de dados técnicos referente à utilização de materiais acústicos para controle de ruídos aéreos em edifícios de escritórios; a análise das classificações e desempenhos e a avaliação da disponibilização de informações técnicas nos catálogos brasileiros de produtos. Tal resultado oferecerá uma base de consulta para obtenção de critérios durante a especificação e elaboração de projetos de espaços corporativos. O trabalho conclui apontando observações da autora, referentes à utilização dos materiais e técnicas e a necessidade de criação e produção de um maior portfólio de produtos.
Big cities have been taken the ground thought freeways and avenues, where constant and loud noise takes place. At theses ways, corporate edifices are also often established, so they naturally become exposed to the external noise interference, regardless the own internal facilities noising. The consequence is that people how work at these places are more prone to be less productive, turning it into a drawback to the corporate. The scenario described above is very concerning. This general research objective is to study techniques and industrialized material in order to reduce and control the noise propagation thought the air on for corporate facilities, focused at the last ten years time frame. It will focus on study and present the technical characteristics for acoustic absorption and/or isolation of roof lining, acoustic barriers, walls, floor, office layout, furniture, glasses, air-conditioner, and sound masking techniques. The specific research objective is to analyze the materials for acoustic handling, based on acoustic classification indexes that relate to the material performance, for absorption and isolation, as listed: NRC (Noise Reduction Coefficient), \'alfa\' (Sound Absorption Coefficient), \'alfa\'w (Pounder Sound Absorption Coefficient), Rw (Noise Reduction Index) and STC (Sound Transmission Class). The objective of this research is to be a single point of reference for technical data regarding the utilization of materials that can be used to control the sound propagation thought the air on corporate edifices; the classification of analysis and performance as well as the evaluation of technical information available on Brazilian product catalogs. The research result offers a baseline for those who look for criteria during the speciation and implementation of corporative spaces. The conclusion of this work is done with the Authors considerations regarding the utilization of materials and techniques, as well the necessity of creation and production of wider product portfolio.

Tonal noise propagating in ducts and radiating from their outlets is a common problem in situations where a fan or a blower is used to drive exhaust gases through the exhaust duct out to the environment. It is also a problem in the exhausts of large diesel engines such as those used to power large marine vessels. One way of attenuating tonal noise propagating in ducts is to use one or more side branch resonators, each of which is specifically designed for optimal performance at a particular frequency. One of the major problems associated with the use of side branch resonators is that any slight change in excitation frequency decreases the effectiveness of the resonators. The change in excitation frequency can be caused by a change in the speed of the engine, fan or blower, or change in temperature in the duct, which changes the speed of sound, and hence the wavelength of the noise. Resonators incorporating a provision for altering their geometry in real - time in order to adapt to environmental or operating condition changes is one approach that has been used by previous researchers. In particular, adaptive Helmholtz resonators have received considerable attention in the literature. Previous work has involved the use of one or more pressure sensors located in the duct downstream of the resonator to provide a cost function to be minimised by an electronic control system which alters the geometry of the resonator. However, in many cases, especially where the duct serves as a passage for exhaust gases to be driven out to the environment, it is not desirable to mount microphones in the duct. Also, microphones located remote from the resonator introduce wiring problems as well as the need to mount the microphones at the correct location in the duct, which will change as the wavelength of the tonal noise in the duct changes as a result of changes in operating or environmental conditions. It is highly desirable to have a completely self - contained Helmholtz resonator ( HR ) which can be attached to the duct and for which the only external wiring needed is the power supply. The work described in this thesis is concerned with the development of a self - contained adaptive HR which can be optimally tuned by using signals from two microphones located in the cavity and neck of the resonator, respectively. The primary focus of the work is the development of a novel cost function, which can be used by an electronic controller to optimally tune the HR. The scope of the analysis has been restricted here to the ' no mean flow ' condition. The theoretical and numerical analysis of the duct - HR system is first conducted using the well known transfer matrix method and finite element analysis ( FEA ) software package ANSYS, respectively. The net acoustic power transmission in the duct downstream of the HR is estimated by using the two - microphone method. Analysing the duct - HR system with the transfer matrix method mandates the incorporation of three end - correction factors which are related to the unflanged open end of the duct, neck - cavity interface and neck - duct interface. However, because of the complexity in estimating the end - correction factor of the neck at the neck - duct interface due to the generation of a complex sound field in the vicinity of the neck opening, the transfer matrix method only approximates the in - duct net acoustic power transmission. This implies that changing the value of the neck - duct interface end - correction factor changes the calculated frequency at which the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR occurs. On the other hand, ANSYS does not require the inclusion of any kind of end - correction factors apart from the actual physical dimensions of the system, and is thus much more accurate than the transfer matrix method. To minimise the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR, a number of different cost functions that were related to the net acoustic power transmission were investigated theoretically, numerically and experimentally. These all involved either the acoustic pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity of the HR or at the neck wall of the HR close to the neck - duct interface or the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between two microphones located in the resonator. The two potential cost functions which were initially considered to be maximised for indicating the minimisation of the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the resonator were : ( a ) the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity, and ( b ) the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface. It was found that the location of the microphone in the neck was extremely important, with the best location being at the centre of the duct adjacent to the neck opening. However, this location was not considered practical because a microphone in the duct can obstruct the mean flow of gas in the duct. The best location for mounting the microphone in the neck was found to be at the neck wall as close as possible to the neck - duct interface. The results are shown in two different ways : ( 1 ) broadband analysis, whereby the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR, the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure transfer function between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and at the neck wall close to the neckduct interface are plotted as a function of frequency, and ( 2 ) single frequency analysis, whereby all the aforementioned results are plotted as a function of the cylindrical cavity length ( for a fixed cavity diameter ) for a single, tonal frequency. For broadband analysis, the numerical ( ANSYS ) results showed that the frequency at which the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR occurs differs from the frequencies which correspond to the maximum responses of cost functions ( a ) and ( b ) described above. For single frequency analysis, when trying to optimise the performance of a duct - mounted HR at a particular frequency by altering its volume, the optimal dimensions of the HR required to attain the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission at that frequency differ from the dimensions of the HR which correspond to the maximised responses of the cost functions ( a ) and ( b ). These results were validated experimentally using a 3 m long circular duct of 0.1555 m diameter with an attached cylindrical HR. During the experimental work, only plane waves were propagating down the duct and there was no mean flow in the duct. Instead of only focusing on the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between the pressures at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface, the phase difference between the same locations in the HR was also considered. It was found that the phase difference depends on the quality factor ( or damping ) of the entire acoustic system. Experiments were conducted with varying dimensions of the HR and two novel cost functions were empirically derived. Both cost functions, which does not include any kind of measurement remote from the HR, are based on the damping ( or the quality factor ) of the duct - HR system and the phase difference between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface. The effectiveness and performance of both cost functions were found to be excellent for minimising the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR. However, the second cost function is preferred because the procedure involved for measuring the system damping is more convenient from the practical point of view than the procedure for the first one. The quality factor of the duct - mounted HR, at the frequency at which noise needs to be attenuated, was determined by tuning the length of the cavity of the HR so as to maximise the amplitude of the pressure transfer function of the HR. This estimated quality factor was found to be directly related to the transfer function phase which corresponds to the minimum in - duct net acoustic power transmission at the tonal frequency. Once this optimum transfer function phase is known, an active control system can be used to drive a motor to adjust the cavity length of the HR to achieve the optimum phase.
Thesis (M.Eng.Sc.)--School of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.

Tonal noise propagating in ducts and radiating from their outlets is a common problem in situations where a fan or a blower is used to drive exhaust gases through the exhaust duct out to the environment. It is also a problem in the exhausts of large diesel engines such as those used to power large marine vessels. One way of attenuating tonal noise propagating in ducts is to use one or more side branch resonators, each of which is specifically designed for optimal performance at a particular frequency. One of the major problems associated with the use of side branch resonators is that any slight change in excitation frequency decreases the effectiveness of the resonators. The change in excitation frequency can be caused by a change in the speed of the engine, fan or blower, or change in temperature in the duct, which changes the speed of sound, and hence the wavelength of the noise. Resonators incorporating a provision for altering their geometry in real - time in order to adapt to environmental or operating condition changes is one approach that has been used by previous researchers. In particular, adaptive Helmholtz resonators have received considerable attention in the literature. Previous work has involved the use of one or more pressure sensors located in the duct downstream of the resonator to provide a cost function to be minimised by an electronic control system which alters the geometry of the resonator. However, in many cases, especially where the duct serves as a passage for exhaust gases to be driven out to the environment, it is not desirable to mount microphones in the duct. Also, microphones located remote from the resonator introduce wiring problems as well as the need to mount the microphones at the correct location in the duct, which will change as the wavelength of the tonal noise in the duct changes as a result of changes in operating or environmental conditions. It is highly desirable to have a completely self - contained Helmholtz resonator ( HR ) which can be attached to the duct and for which the only external wiring needed is the power supply. The work described in this thesis is concerned with the development of a self - contained adaptive HR which can be optimally tuned by using signals from two microphones located in the cavity and neck of the resonator, respectively. The primary focus of the work is the development of a novel cost function, which can be used by an electronic controller to optimally tune the HR. The scope of the analysis has been restricted here to the ' no mean flow ' condition. The theoretical and numerical analysis of the duct - HR system is first conducted using the well known transfer matrix method and finite element analysis ( FEA ) software package ANSYS, respectively. The net acoustic power transmission in the duct downstream of the HR is estimated by using the two - microphone method. Analysing the duct - HR system with the transfer matrix method mandates the incorporation of three end - correction factors which are related to the unflanged open end of the duct, neck - cavity interface and neck - duct interface. However, because of the complexity in estimating the end - correction factor of the neck at the neck - duct interface due to the generation of a complex sound field in the vicinity of the neck opening, the transfer matrix method only approximates the in - duct net acoustic power transmission. This implies that changing the value of the neck - duct interface end - correction factor changes the calculated frequency at which the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR occurs. On the other hand, ANSYS does not require the inclusion of any kind of end - correction factors apart from the actual physical dimensions of the system, and is thus much more accurate than the transfer matrix method. To minimise the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR, a number of different cost functions that were related to the net acoustic power transmission were investigated theoretically, numerically and experimentally. These all involved either the acoustic pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity of the HR or at the neck wall of the HR close to the neck - duct interface or the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between two microphones located in the resonator. The two potential cost functions which were initially considered to be maximised for indicating the minimisation of the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the resonator were : ( a ) the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity, and ( b ) the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface. It was found that the location of the microphone in the neck was extremely important, with the best location being at the centre of the duct adjacent to the neck opening. However, this location was not considered practical because a microphone in the duct can obstruct the mean flow of gas in the duct. The best location for mounting the microphone in the neck was found to be at the neck wall as close as possible to the neck - duct interface. The results are shown in two different ways : ( 1 ) broadband analysis, whereby the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR, the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure transfer function between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and at the neck wall close to the neckduct interface are plotted as a function of frequency, and ( 2 ) single frequency analysis, whereby all the aforementioned results are plotted as a function of the cylindrical cavity length ( for a fixed cavity diameter ) for a single, tonal frequency. For broadband analysis, the numerical ( ANSYS ) results showed that the frequency at which the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR occurs differs from the frequencies which correspond to the maximum responses of cost functions ( a ) and ( b ) described above. For single frequency analysis, when trying to optimise the performance of a duct - mounted HR at a particular frequency by altering its volume, the optimal dimensions of the HR required to attain the maximum reduction of in - duct net acoustic power transmission at that frequency differ from the dimensions of the HR which correspond to the maximised responses of the cost functions ( a ) and ( b ). These results were validated experimentally using a 3 m long circular duct of 0.1555 m diameter with an attached cylindrical HR. During the experimental work, only plane waves were propagating down the duct and there was no mean flow in the duct. Instead of only focusing on the amplitude of the pressure transfer function between the pressures at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface, the phase difference between the same locations in the HR was also considered. It was found that the phase difference depends on the quality factor ( or damping ) of the entire acoustic system. Experiments were conducted with varying dimensions of the HR and two novel cost functions were empirically derived. Both cost functions, which does not include any kind of measurement remote from the HR, are based on the damping ( or the quality factor ) of the duct - HR system and the phase difference between the pressure at the top of the closed end of the cavity and the pressure at the neck wall close to the neck - duct interface. The effectiveness and performance of both cost functions were found to be excellent for minimising the in - duct net acoustic power transmission downstream of the HR. However, the second cost function is preferred because the procedure involved for measuring the system damping is more convenient from the practical point of view than the procedure for the first one. The quality factor of the duct - mounted HR, at the frequency at which noise needs to be attenuated, was determined by tuning the length of the cavity of the HR so as to maximise the amplitude of the pressure transfer function of the HR. This estimated quality factor was found to be directly related to the transfer function phase which corresponds to the minimum in - duct net acoustic power transmission at the tonal frequency. Once this optimum transfer function phase is known, an active control system can be used to drive a motor to adjust the cavity length of the HR to achieve the optimum phase.
Thesis (M.Eng.Sc.)--School of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.

Bibliography : leaves 237-251.
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Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994

Noise control in the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is one of the critical design parameters in measuring the occupant comfort. The noise generated by air-handling units propagates through the ducts in the axial as well as transverse direction. Noise radiated in the transverse direction from the duct walls excited by the internal sound field is called the breakout noise. An analytical formulation has been developed in this thesis in order to predict the breakout noise by incorporating three-dimensional effects along with the acoustical and structural wave coupling phenomena. The first step in the breakout noise prediction is to calculate the interior acoustic response and flexural vibration displacement of the compliant walls. Dynamic interaction between the internal acoustic subsystem and flexible structural subsystem has been expressed in terms of the modal characteristics of the uncoupled response of the acoustic and structural sub-systems. Solutions of the inhomogeneous wave equation are rearranged in terms of impedance and mobility, and the equations describing the complete system are expressed in terms of matrices, which result in a compact matrix formulation. Examples of the formulation are a rectangular cavity with one flexible wall and a rectangular cavity with four-flexible walls. The formulation is modified to incorporate complex boundary conditions by means of appropriate Green’s functions. It is implemented for flexible wall duct using the modified cavity Green’s function. Another objective of the present investigation is to understand the coupling phenomenon and its effect on the compliant wall vibration displacement. The developed three-dimensional analytical analysis of the breakout noise is convenient to implement on the computer, and also to extend the sub-system level model to the system level model in order to analyze a complex acoustic-structural system for the breakout noise problem. The extent of coupling is calculated using a transfer factor based on the uncoupled natural frequencies of the acoustic and structural subsystems. It is observed from the free vibration analysis that a coupling between the cavity and the flexible panel exists in the vicinity of an uncoupled acoustic natural frequency. If a strong coupling occurs between an acoustic mode and a panel mode, then damping of structural subsystem would control it. The cavity volume changes stiffness of the panel, which in turn affects noise radiation in the stiffness-controlled region. The second step is to calculate the sound power radiated from complaint wall. The wall vibration velocity is a linear combination of the uncoupled flexural modes of the structural subsystem. It is substituted into the Rayleigh integral and Kirchhoff– Helmholtz (KH) integral formulation to predict the sound pressure radiated by the vibrating duct wall. The radiated sound power can be obtained by integrating the acoustic intensity over the surface of the flexible duct wall making use of appropriate expressions for radiation impedance. The radiation impedance terms involve a quadruple integral. Evaluation of this integral is quite complex and poses formidable computational challenges. These have been overcome by means of a co-ordinate transformation. Sound power radiation from flexible walls of the plenum and duct walls has been calculated using an equivalent plate model. Analytical results are corroborated with numerical models. The second part of thesis deals with a one-dimensional model to predict the breakout noise from a thin rectangular duct with different end conditions like anechoic termination, rigid-end termination, and the open-end termination. This model incorporates acoustic reflection effects in the duct internal sound field by using standing wave pattern by means of the transfer matrix approach. A one-dimensional prediction method based on the four-pole parameters has been developed to evaluate the lagged duct performance in terms of the breakout noise reduction. Radiation impedance of a duct is calculated by three different methods: (i) finite line source model (ii) finite cylinder model, and (iii) equivalent plate model based on fundamental bending mode of the duct. It is observed that the proposed model that uses the equivalent plate model for the lagged duct and the line source model for the bare duct is appropriate to predict the transverse insertion loss of the lagging, particularly at the lower frequencies that are of primary interest for reducing the breakout noise of rectangular ducts. The bare duct breakout noise results are compared with those of the corresponding 3-D analytical models. It shows that the one-dimensional model captures the overall mean pattern of breakout noise very well. The third part of the thesis examines the internal acoustic field and thence the transmission loss (TL) of a rectangular expansion chamber, the inlet and outlet of which are situated at arbitrary locations of the chamber; i.e., the sidewall or the face of the chamber. The four-pole parameters have been expressed in terms of an appropriate Green’s function of a rectangular cavity with homogeneous boundary conditions. A transfer matrix formulation has been developed for the yielding-wall rectangular chambers by considering structural-acoustic coupling. It may be combined readily with the transfer matrices of the other constituent elements upstream and downstream in order to compute the overall transmission loss or insertion loss. Wherever applicable, parametric studies have been conducted to evolve the design guidelines for minimizing the breakout noise from the HVAC ducts, plenums and cavities.

碩士
國立交通大學
機械工程系
89
In this paper, we discuss some issues for active duct noise control. The research will be divided into two main parts. First, our work presents a problem of electronic delay in active noise control systems and a multirate signal processing approach is utilized to minimize the electronic delay in the control loop. In this approach, the computation efficiency is further enhanced by a polyphase method. The second main part of this paper describes a comb filter is used to replace the repetitive controller in broadband spatially feedforward ANC algorithms. In this algorithm, two types of LMS-based algorithms are used. In addition, we also handle acoustic echo cancellation and noise rejection in communication system using off-line modeling and adaptive filter techniques. The proposed methods are realized on the platform of a TMS320C32 floating point digital signal processor (DSP) equipped with four 16-bit analog IO channels and they are proven to be valid from the detailed design, analysis, and implementation for the experimental duct system.

碩士
華梵大學
機電工程研究所
91
The thesis is aimed at attenuating duct noise by employing hybrid noise control. The hybrid noise control method consists of methods of active noise control and semi-active noise control. In this thesis a Helmholtz resonator is used for the semi-active noise control in a duct. When the frequency of noise source in the duct is coincident with the natural frequency of the resonator, one can obtain an anti-resonance noise reduction to its best extent of the Helmholtz resonator. For the active noise control method, an anti-phase sound source is added at the down stream of the duct and an adaptive control law is used for generating anti-noise to destructively interfere with the primary noise. Integrating the two noise control methods for further improving duct noise attenuation is conducted and validated by experimental studies. The frequency range used in the experimental studies is from 230Hz to 790Hz. For the two-tone noise sources, two noise sources with 300-600Hz and 400-500Hz are included. Experimental results show that the averaged noise reductions for the semi-active, active and hybrid noise control for pure-tone excitation are 11.7, 18.8 and 20.9 dB, respectively, while effective noise attenuations for the two-tone noise sources are also observed.

碩士
華梵大學
機電工程研究所
88
This thesis presents two kinds of adaptive control to reduce noise in a duct for active noise control with single microphone. The first controller employs two adaptive filters to accomplish plant disturbance canceling and is termed plant disturbance canceller, and the other controller is the self-tuning regulator. The two adaptive controllers are compared for noise reduction of fixed-frequency and varying-frequency disturbances with and without changing environments. The two adaptive controllers have these advantages: (1) Cost effective since only one microphone is used, (2) Without the problem of sound pressure feedback from the secondary speaker to the reference microphone, as used in the feedforward control configuration. The plant disturbance canceller used in this thesis can be found in many literatures. However, system identification for modeling the plant dynamic needs to be done prior to controller application. To remedy this difficulty, we offer a new control method for plant disturbance canceller that can learn its plant on-line. Model improvement for this controller’s practicability, an thus be obtained. Another controller presented in this thesis is the self-tuning regulator. It is a controller that can tune its parameters according to environment changes and hence it has a higher practicability.

碩士
文化大學
勞工研究所
86
This study focuses on the development of passive and active noise control techniques for noise control in ducts. For passive noise control technique both reactive and dissipate noise control techniques are used in this research to investigate their noise control effects under different noise frequencies. Noise generator is used as the noise source and the wooden duct is built to simulate the duct in factory. Experiment results indicate both reactive and dissipate noise control techniques are effective in reducing noises in ducts. However, the noises can be reduced to certain levels only due to saturation effect. Noise control techniques can not eliminate noises indefinitely. By combining both active and dissipate noise control techniques the noise reduction effects are significant. For active noise control technique the recent development and application of this technique is reviewed and integrated in this research. In addition, the application conditions as well as scope are indicated to provide the basis for those interested in noise control.

博士
國立中興大學
機械工程學系所
94
A novel secondary-path model of speaker-duct systems and a face velocity sensor of dual voice coil speakers are first developed in this study. A combined design of active noise control (ANC) and face velocity control (FVC) based on the identified secondary-path model is further proposed to set up an adaptive feedback ANC/FVC controller with a modified filtered-X recursive least square (FxRLS) algorithm for ANC applications. Experiments show that the feedback ANC/FVC controller with the developed velocity sensor can achieve better performance as compared to that of a FIR filter with the conventional FxRLS algorithm. A commutation error (CE) is then considered in addition to the conventional residual error to generate the innovative residual error. Such an error is applied into cost functions to derive finite impulse response (FIR) and infinite impulse response (IIR) filter-based adaptive algorithms for ANC applications, referred to as FxRLS/CE and FuRLS/FRE+CE algorithms, respectively. Convergence analyses based on Lyapunov stability criteria for time-varying discrete-time systems can be carried out for the FxLMS/CE, FxRLS/CE and FuRLS/ FRE+CE algorithms to ensure stability. Computer simulations and experiments demonstrate that the innovative residual error-based adaptive algorithms can free the restriction of the slow-adaptation assumption in the conventional ANC approaches.

碩士
國立交通大學
控制工程系
85
Feedforward control methods of active noise cancellation system inducts are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Without any modal truncation and thus reserving the distributed-parameter nature of theacoustic system, the plant model used in this thesis can completely characterizethe plan-wave behavior in finite-length ducts. A general noise cancellationframework is constructed for stability analysis and controlller synthesis.It is shown that there exist infinitely many controllers to perfectly blocknoise propagation toward downstream area. The most attractive features ofthese controllers are their simple structures and independency of boundaryconditions. One particular controller with special physical meaning isanalyzed and experimented. The experimental results show a consistent behavioras predicted by the theory. However, the performance of this controllerdegenerates due to the difference of sensors'' dynamics and uncertainty of theplant. To alleviate this influence, an adaptive version of this controller isdesigned. Experimental results show that adaptive control is feasible andeffectively remedies these uncertainties.

碩士
國立師範大學
衛生教育學系
86
The main purposes of this study were to explore the effects of the noisecontrol strategies on schools' noise and indoor air quality,and the subjectivephysical and psychological influences on teachers and students.The purposive samplingmethod was adopted in selecting the subjects of 254 students and 8 teachers fromLong-An Primary School in Taipei.The data were collected by field measurements andquestionaires. The following conclusions were drawn from the study.1.After the classroom's noise control strategies were fulfilled,by closing windows ,the noise reduction for the frequency of 500-4000 Hz exceeded 20dB ; and the the average noise attenuation was also improved from the original 11.7 dB(A) to 18.8 dB(A) .Indoor air quality reached the standards of the Japenese school's environmental health.2.As far as the school's noise was concerned, the physical influences on teachers were easily to feel fatique and the decrease of hearing ; as for the subjective psychological influence, their main reaction was feeling fidgety. Regarding the indoor air quality , after the school's noise control strategies were implemented , the physical influence on teachers was feeling fidgety and getting pressure.3.After the school's noise control strategies were implemented ,most of students felt that the classroom was less noisy and percentage of students felt uncomfotable was also lower statistical significantly. In the case of closing windows , regarding the indoor air quality, 48.8% students' felt sultry ,and as the physiology was involved, as high as 52% students' answers were sweating, those effects of which were noticeable.

碩士
國立聯合大學
環境與安全衛生工程學系碩士班
96
Jet flows powered by compressed air are used extensively in industrial settings for cleaning dust, water steam, and grime. In this kind of activity, very high jet flow speed is required, and a excessive noise develops. This will bring about the workers who exposed to noise on the possibility of hearing loss. However, only a few researches have been carried out on predicting the aeroacoustic noise because of the difficulty in obtaining detailed information of the flow field. This study is to predict the flow field and the acoustic pressure field of the air blow gun unit using commercially CFD software. Furthermore, in order to develop the solution of controlling compressed air noise, the realizing of the generation mechanism of sound and the quantifying of the noise source strength in the flow field is required. In this study, the design approach proposed is based on reducing the noise level without impairing the operation demands. Thus, this investigations adopt the dual flow mouthpiece method as the design basis, in a situation that the nozzle-exit area is maintained. Five kinds of small holes with various inclined angles(10˚, 15˚, 20˚, 25˚, 30˚) are tested. In comparison with the original single jet-stream type shows that, the noise-abating effect of using inclined-passages is significant. All these special-designed air blow gun can provide up to 13dB∼19dB of sound reduction. We also find that the one with 30-degree angle of inclination offer the best performance.

This thesis endeavors towards developing various concepts employed in analysis and design of acoustic filters for varied applications ranging from combination mufflers for automobiles to complex networks of gas carrying ducts to multiply connected complex automotive silencing devices to the noise control coatings for underwater applications. A two-dimensional wave modeling approach has been proposed to evaluate sound attenuation characteristics of dissipative mufflers of finite length with/without extended inlet and outlet tubes including very large mufflers. The correctness of the method has been validated through comparison with experimental results from literature. Two other frequently used approximate schemes have been discussed briefly with reference to the available literature. These three approaches have then been weighed against each other to show the effectiveness and limitations of each one. A thorough comparison study has been performed to investigate each one’s extent of applicability. A parametric study with different parameters suggests some useful design guidelines that can be put to use while designing such mufflers. Benefits and drawbacks of reactive and dissipative mufflers have been discussed with an intention of striking a compromise between them to achieve a better transmission quality over a broad frequency range. This has been accomplished by combining these two types of mufflers/filters explicitly. These combination mufflers are analyzed using a transfer matrix based approach by extending the aforesaid concept of two-dimensional wave modeling for finite dissipative ducts. The present approach has been used to analyze axi-symmetric circular lined plenum chambers also. The effectiveness of the bulk reaction assumption to model absorptive lining is illustrated. A parametric study has been carried out to investigate the effects of different thicknesses and placements of the absorptive lining. The contributions of reflective and absorptive portion of the combination mufflerto overall attenuation performance have been investigated from the designer’s point of view A generalized algorithm has been developed for studying the plane sound wave propa- gation in a system of interconnected rigid-walled acoustic filter elements. Interconnection between various elements is represented by a connectivity matrix. Equations of volume velocity continuity and pressure equilibrium at the interconnections are generated using this connectivity matrix and are solved using the Gauss-Jordan elimination scheme to get the overall transfer matrix of the system. The algorithm used for generalized labeling of the network and computation of Transmission Loss has also been discussed. The algorithm has been applied to investigate a multiply connected automobile mufflers as a network of acoustic elements which guides the way to a specialized application discussed next. Results for some configurations have been compared with those from the FEM analysis and experiments. A parametric study with respect to some geometric variables is carried out. The acoustical similarity between apparently different networks is discussed. The approach is flexible to incorporate any other acoustic elements, provided the acoustic variables at the junctions of the element can be related by a transfer matrix a priori. Commercial automotive mufflers are often too complex to be broken into a cascade of one dimensional elements with predetermined transfer matrices. The one dimensional (1-D) scheme presented here is based on an algorithm that uses user friendly visual volume elements to generate the system equations which are then solved using a Gauss-Jordan elimination scheme to derive the overall transfer matrix of the muffler. This work attempts and succeeds to a great extent in exploiting the speed of the one dimensional analysis with the flexibility, generality and user friendliness of three dimensional analysis using geometric modeling. A code based on the developed algorithm has been employed to demonstrate the generality of the proposed method in analyzing commercial muffers by considering three very diverse classes of mufflers with different kinds of combinations of reactive, perforated and absorptive elements. Though the examples presented in the thesis are not very complex for they are meant to be just representative cases of certain classes of mufflers, yet the algorithm can handle a large domain of commercial mufflers of high degree of complexity. Results from the present algorithm have been validated through comparisons with both the analytical and the more general, three-dimensional FEM based results. The forte of the proposed method is its power to construct the system matrix consistent with the boundary conditions from the geometrical model to evaluate the four pole parameters of the entire muffer and thence its transmission loss,etc. Thus, the algorithm can be used in conjunction with the transfer matrix based muffler programs to analyze the entire exhaust system of an automobile. A different kind of acoustic filter than the above mentioned cases is then taken up for investigation. These refer to the specialized underwater acoustic filters laid as linings on submerged bodies. These kind of underwater noise control linings have three different types of objectives, namely, Echo Reduction, Transmission Reduction (TL maximization) and a combination thereof. These coatings have been shown to be behaving very differently with different shape, size and number of air channels present in the layer. In this regard, a finite element model based methodology has been followed. An hybrid type finite element based on the Pian and Tong formulation has been modified and used so as to make the computational efforts less demanding as compared to the original one. The developed finite element has been shown to be immune to the difficulties that arise due to the near incompressible characteristics of the viscoelastic materials used and the high distortion of the elements of the FE mesh. The adequacy of this formulation has been shown by comparing its results with the analytical, FE based, and experimental results. Then, this methodology has been used to analyze and generate design curves to control various geometrical parameters for proper designing of these linings. Different unit cell representations for different types of distributions of air cavities on the linings have been discussed. Four different types of layers have been introduced and analyzed to address different objectives mentioned above. They have been termed as the Anechoic layer, Insulation layer and Combination Layer of coupled and decoupled type in this thesis. The first two layers have been designed to achieve very dissimilar characteristics and the next two layers have been designed to balance their disparities. A thorough parametric study has been carried out on the geometrical parameters of all the layers to come up with the design guidelines. For anechoic and the insulation layers, different distributions have been analyzed with different unit cell geometries and their usability in specific situations has been outlined. Effect of static pressure has also been studied by using an approximate finite element method. This method can be used to simulate deep-sea testing environment.

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This paper identifies the need for thorough experimental based study for Software-over-the-air (SOTA) in an automotive context. The paper outlines the challenges and context for automotive SOTA with an extensive literature review. It then details the early stages of the experimental studies, which aim to identify the key control and noise factors that affect performance of the SOTA in an automotive environment. This contribution establishes a framework for uncertainty modelling of SOTA as a system which highlights the needs to develop solutions requiring big data gathering and analysis as next research opportunities to the scientific community.
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