A poro-elastic model of sound propagation in granular materials

Z Mo, G Song, T Shi, JS Bolton - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of granular materials have been studied for many years, however, they have
recently drawn attention for their unique response to acoustic excitation, and thus their …

Recent Progress on Organic Aerogels for Sound Absorption

E Hu, Y Zhu, X Cheng, Q Liu, M Zhu - Materials Today Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of modern industry, noise pollution has become one of the
serious environmental problems in human life. The application of porous sound absorption …

Experimental study of granular particle stacks' circumferential edge-constraint effect and the level-and time-dependent acoustical behavior

G Song, Z Mo, T Shi, JS Bolton - Powder Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
Granular materials, such as activated carbon, have shown advantages in absorbing low-
frequency sounds, but they also exhibit significant nonlinearities. In this article, three unique …

Effect of particle size on sound absorption behavior of granular aerogel agglomerates

A Dasyam, Y Xue, JS Bolton, B Sharma - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2022 - Elsevier
We investigate the sound absorption characteristics of granular aerogel agglomerates of
various particle sizes. The normal incidence sound absorption coefficients of six …

Tunable sound packages consisting of granular aerogels and fibrous media

Y Xue, E Sanchez-Torres, B Sharma… - Noise Control …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
In this study, two granular aerogel materials, both consisting of particles with sizes on the
scale of 1 to 50 mm, were first investigated both theoretically and experimentally to improve …

Characterization and analysis of granular activated carbon stacks subject to the edge-constraint effect

G Song, Z Mo, T Shi, JS Bolton - Powder Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
The objective of the current work was to identify the conditions under which the acoustical
properties of unconsolidated stacks of granular activated carbon (GAC) can be accurately …

A general and stable approach to modeling and coupling multilayered acoustical systems with various types of layers

G Song, Z Mo, JS Bolton - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2023 - Elsevier
In this article, a general method is proposed to model layered acoustical systems with two-by-
two transfer matrices, and further, to solve for their acoustic absorption, reflection, and …

Acoustic analyses of mortars prepared with recycled aggregates

TS Bozkurt - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
The use of aggregate types obtained from glass wastes and construction wastes was
investigated in mortar mixtures. The sound absorption coefficient, sound transmission loss …

[HTML][HTML] Designing hybrid aerogel-3D printed absorbers for simultaneous low frequency and broadband noise control

Y Xue, LP Nobles, B Sharma, JS Bolton - Materials & Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent studies have demonstrated that granular aerogels with sub-50 μm particles surpass
conventional acoustic materials like glass fibers and polyurethane foams in low-frequency …

Modeling a low-frequency sound absorber consisting of a granular activated carbon stack backed by a poro-elastic layer

G Song, Z Mo, T Shi, JS Bolton - INTER-NOISE and NOISE …, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
High surface area particles, like granular activated carbon (GAC), have shown advantages
in absorbing low-frequency sounds by themselves and when combined with other …