RESUMO
There was a previous study to derive the sound absorption coefficient of the powder layers comprising powder particles with a diameter of a few tens of µm. According to this previous method, the impact of air viscosity at the boundary layer generated in the pores between the powder particles is neglected. Therefore, precision is not guaranteed when the particle diameter is relatively large or when the density is relatively high. In the present study, to obtain the sound absorption coefficient of the powder layer more accurately, in addition to the above-described longitudinal vibration mode, the energy damping property of the boundary layer viscosity was calculated using the transfer-matrix method. As a result, when the longitudinal vibration mode and boundary layer viscosity were considered, the theoretical value tended to be closer to the experimental value than when only the longitudinal vibration was considered.
RESUMO
In this study, the sound absorption characteristics of lightweight powders with a particle size on the order of tens of micrometers have been investigated. Herein, to theoretically determine the sound absorption coefficient of a fine lightweight powder in the longitudinal vibration mode, it was assumed that the powder was continuum and could be treated as a multiple degree-of-freedom damping vibration system. In addition, the acoustic impedance was calculated by assuming proportional viscous damping to determine the sound absorption coefficient. Finally, the theoretical and experimental values were compared. With the presented theoretical analysis, values close to the experimental results were obtained. Among the three calculated values based on proportional viscous damping, i.e., Rayleigh damping, rigidity proportional damping, and mass proportional damping, the results for Rayleigh damping were the closest to the experimental values.