Materials, Advanced Design
&
Manufacturing
100
3.3
Acoustic materials
Keywords
Acoustics, noise, vibration, structure-borne sound,
vibro-acoustics, sound transmission
Expertise
The University has a team of specialists who can provide
research, training and consultancy in the field of acoustics,
with particular emphasis on building acoustics, engineering
and industrial acoustics, and environmental noise.
We are experts in evaluating the acoustic properties of
construction and other materials, based on a full analysis
of their acoustic properties (vibro-acoustics, sound
transmission, etc) and their use in buildings or other
industrial applications for low-frequency sound and
sustainable noise control.
The Acoustics Research Unit (ARU) has state-of-the-art
laboratories: anechoic, semi-anechoic and reverberant
chambers and an audiometric booth.
Our researchers have expertise in the field of engineering
acoustics, ranging from sonic cleaning and the promotion
of flow with powders in manufacturing, structure-borne
sound power input from machinery through to sound
and vibration transmission in large built-up structures.
The combination of ARU expertise, test facilities and our
prediction capabilities allows us to tackle a wide range of
commercial research and consultancy.
Capabilities and facilities
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Anechoic, semi-anechoic and reverberant chambers
and an audiometric booth for acoustic studies
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State-of-the-art instrumentation for sound and
vibration measurement
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Software simulation tools including AutoCAD and
LMS Raynoise for room acoustics; Abaqus FEA and
LMS Sysnoise for finite element calculations; LMS
Sysnoise for boundary element calculations, and
Matlab for signal processing.
Also see:
Energy & Sustainability –
7.
Living in the sustainable built
environment, page 80
