Improving Sound Absorption coefficient and analysis of polyurethane foam reinforced with wood powder

Abstract

When it comes to acoustic insulation Polyurethane foam plays a very vital role for various sound absorption applications. The interest of this paper is to spot out the best combination of bio-based porous materials to obtain the best acoustic property. Here the porous materials used are polyurethane foam, pine wood with air gap. The sound absorption depends on the material properties such as Flow resistivity, porosity, tortuosity, thermal characteristic length and physical characteristic length, the different combinations of materials with air gap are being tested for sound absorption coefficient using impendence tube method using COMSOL. The results are being compared with numerical values obtained using impedance tube that helps us to present the best combination which provides the maximum sound absorption.