Periodic Reporting for period 4 - VirBAcous (Virtual building acoustics: a robust and efficient analysis and optimization framework for noise transmission reduction)
Période du rapport: 2022-02-01 au 2023-01-31
The second work package dealt with the analysis of built-up systems. A general method for hybrid band-averaged (co)variance analysis of vibro-acoustic systems with diffuse subsystems has been developed by making extensive use of cross-frequency diffuse field reciprocity. The method has been used as a basis for quantifying the diffuse field uncertainty in airborne sound insulation and sound absorption. The analysis of built-up vibro-acoustic systems often relies on the assumption that subsystems are weakly coupled. A generally applicable methodology has been developed for assessing the validity of the weak coupling assumption across the entire frequency range.
In the third work package, the many uncertain parameters that affect the acoustic performance of building systems were treated by incorporating the field-based diffuse subsystem models into a Monte Carlo approach that accounts for the additional parametric uncertainty. The method is computationally efficient as the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the diffuse subsystems are directly drawn from conditional universal probability distributions. When subsystems are coupled at an area junction, the diffuse mode shape components are needed at a large number of locations, so a fast analytical decomposition based on prolate spheroidal wave functions has been developed. Virtual round robin testing of airborne sound insulation was developed as a practical showcase.
The fourth work package dealt with design optimization based on the developed prediction models. First, the optimized material distribution of single and double panels for maximized narrowband sound insulation was obtained by topology optimization. Next, the complexity was increased towards the optimization of the airborne sound insulation of complex walls across the entire building acoustics frequency range, with the determination of the optimal cross-sectional shape of metal studs in double-leaf walls under manufacturing and cost constraints as practical showcase. Finally, a further generalization towards distributed systems was achieved. The broadband optimization of locally resonant vibro-acoustic metamaterials with orthotropic host structures has been selected as a target case, leading to new types of rotational and multimodal resonators with realizable designs.