Study on Sound Absorption Performance of Aluminum Foam Combination

Abstract

Aluminum foam is a kind of new material with a large number of holes distributed in aluminum alloy. It has the characteristics of lightweight, sound absorption, energy absorption and vibration reduction, and other porous materials. Aluminum foam has good acoustic performance. However, its excellent sound absorption ability is only reflected in the middle and high-frequency bands. Besides, the low-frequency sound absorption ability is very poor and the frequency band is narrow. Therefore, in this paper, different types of perforated aluminum foams with different parameters are combined to explore the influence on acoustic performance and find that the combination of large porosity perforated sample and aluminum foam has a better sound absorption effect. The unperforated sample is placed in front of the perforated sample to improve the sound absorption coefficient of the low and medium frequencies. Finally, different types of perforated aluminum foam samples were properly combined, and it was found through the test that almost all sound waves in the band of 1200 HZ~2000 Hz could be absorbed by the combined structure.