Design of microperforated nanofibrous membrane coated nonwoven structure for acoustic applications

Jiahui Shen; Heow Pueh Lee; Xiong Yan

doi:10.1088/1361-6528/ac8e73

Design of microperforated nanofibrous membrane coated nonwoven structure for acoustic applications

Nanotechnology. 2022 Sep 19;33(49). doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac8e73.

Authors

Jiahui Shen^{1

2}, Heow Pueh Lee², Xiong Yan¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore.

PMID: 36049465
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac8e73

Abstract

In this paper, a promising acoustic structure for noise reduction was prepared, in which microperforated nanofibrous resonant membrane together with nonwovens were used. The role of microperforated nanofibrous film, the effect of perforation parameters, cavity and the assembly sequence of the composite fibrous structure on sound absorption performance has been studied. This structure effectively combined the porous sound absorbing, micro-perforated absorbing and membrane resonance mechanisms, which can improve the sound absorbing performance without weight and thickness penalty offering a competitive advantage in noise reduction. In addition, the composite materials exhibited favorable performance in a wide-frequency regime under the condition of appropriate assembly sequence and perforation parameters.

Keywords: microperforated structure; nanofiber composites sound absorber; noise reduction; textile composites.