A Design Method for Labyrinth Sound Absorption Structure with Micro-perforated Plates

Abstract

A kind of labyrinth sound absorption structure is constructed by embedding multi-layer micro-perforated plates into a pipeline, and a design method is proposed to optimize its parameters to ensure a good sound absorption performance. First, the effects of parameters of the labyrinth structure on the sound absorption performance are investigated. Second, a parameter optimization method is constructed based on the acoustic impedance transfer analysis and particle swarm optimization algorithm. Then, a simulation experiment is implemented by means of COMSOL to verify the optimization results. Finally, the labyrinth structures with straight pipeline, spiral pipeline and parallel pipeline are designed and their sound absorption performances are evaluated and compared. The research shows that, the effects of the perforation diameter, the plate thickness, and the perforation rate on the sound absorption performance are non-independent while the effect of the depth of cavity is independent; the weighting coefficient in the parameter optimization method could be adjusted to ensure a big absorption bandwidth in a low frequency range; in the frequency range of 30-4000 Hz, the labyrinth structure with straight pipeline and the labyrinth structure with spiral pipeline have the same sound absorption performance; for the labyrinth structure with parallel pipeline, the inner corner radius of pipeline has a great influence on the sound absorption performance, and the radius should be greater than 20mm.