Noise Protection

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Sound Absorber

  • Porous absorbers (mineral wool, melamine foams, metallic hollow sphere structures, porous road surfaces, fills, etc.)
    • material characteristics (measurement method, flow resistance, porosity, ...)
    • design of absorbers directly on the wall and at a distance from the wall Absorber covers (perforated sheets, ...)
    • design of absorbent curtains
  • Micro-perforated absorbers
  • Plate transducer and perforated plate transducer
    • Helmholtz-resonator
    • Quarter-wave-length resonator
Silencer/Muffler
  • Absorptive silencer
    • designs (frequency response, transmission effect, ...),
    • approximate solution according to Piening nomograms,
    • flow noise,
    • pressure drop,
    • exact solution,
  • Reactive silencer,
    • designs,
    • mode of operation,
    • insertion loss at the jump of cross-section,
    • insertion loss of a chamber,
    • insertion loss of a multi-chamber system,
    • Helmholtz-resonator and
    • Quarter-wave-length-resonator.

Encapsulation

  • pathes of sound propagation,
  • sound insulation of walls,
  • openings,
  • sealing,
  • structure-borne noise insulation

Noise Barriers

  • designs
  • calculations according to Maekawa and Kurze (RLS 90, ISO 9613-2)
  • calculation according to North 2000
  • metrological evaluation according to DIN/CEN TS 1793-5
  • absorptive of noise barriers and toppings

Outdoor Sound propagation

  • calculations according to RLS 90 and  ISO 9613-2
  • calculation according to North 2000