Recommended Citation
Reprinted from Proceedings of the 2001 Noise and Vibration Conference, April 30, 2001.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Charles Birdsong was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.
Abstract
Many engineering systems create unwanted noise that can be reduced by the careful application of engineering noise controls. When this noise travels down tubes and pipes, a tuned resonator can be used to muffle noise escaping from the tube. The classical examples are automobile exhaust and ventilation system noise. In these cases where a narrow frequency band of noise exists, a traditional engineering control consists of adding a tuned Helmholtz resonator to reduce unwanted tonal noise by reflecting it back to the source (Temkin, 1981). As long as the frequency of the unwanted noise falls within the tuned resonator frequency range, the device is effective. However, if the frequency of the unwanted sound changes to a frequency that does not match the tuned resonator frequency, the device is no longer effective. Conventional resonators have fixed tuning and cannot effectively muffle tonal noise with time-varying frequency.
Disciplines
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright
2001 SAE International.
Number of Pages
9
Publisher statement
Reprinted with permission from SAE. Paper number 2001-01-1615.
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