A tunable acoustic barrier based on periodic arrays of subwavelength slits

[EN] The most usual method to reduce undesirable enviromental noise levels during its transmission is the use of acoustic barriers. A novel type of acoustic barrier based on sound transmission through subwavelength slits is presented. This system consists of two rows of periodic repetition of vertic...

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Autores: Rubio Michavila, Constanza|||0000-0002-4395-7473, Uris Martínez, Antonio|||0000-0002-2005-2305, Candelas Valiente, Pilar|||0000-0002-9924-7673, Belmar Ibáñez, Francisco|||0000-0003-4412-0007, Gómez Lozano, Vicente|||0000-0002-4564-8287
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/95464
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/95464
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Subwavelength slit
Acoustic barrier
Insertion loss
Noise Control
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Sumario:[EN] The most usual method to reduce undesirable enviromental noise levels during its transmission is the use of acoustic barriers. A novel type of acoustic barrier based on sound transmission through subwavelength slits is presented. This system consists of two rows of periodic repetition of vertical rigid pickets separated by a slit of subwavelength width and with a misalignment between them. Here, both the experimental and the numerical analyses are presented. The acoustic barrier proposed can be easily built and is frequency tunable. The results demonstrated that the proposed barrier can be tuned to mitigate a band noise without excesive barrier thickness. The use of this system as an environmental acoustic barrier has certain advantages with regard to the ones currently used both from the constructive and the acoustical point of view.