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    Study On Sound Absorption of Needle-Punched Nonwovens

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    This study examined the sound absorption properties of needle-punched nonwoven fabrics. Finer fibers were found to produce nonwovens with higher sound absorption coefficients due to their greater surface area and ability to form tortuous pathways. Needling depth and density, as well as nonwoven areal density, thickness, and specific airflow resistance also impacted sound absorption. The addition of aerogels to nonwovens further increased their sound absorbing properties. An artificial neural network model best predicted the sound absorption coefficient of nonwovens based on input parameters.

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    This study examined the sound absorption properties of needle-punched nonwoven fabrics. Finer fibers were found to produce nonwovens with higher sound absorption coefficients due to their greater surface area and ability to form tortuous pathways. Needling depth and density, as well as nonwoven areal density, thickness, and specific airflow resistance also impacted sound absorption. The addition of aerogels to nonwovens further increased their sound absorbing properties. An artificial neural network model best predicted the sound absorption coefficient of nonwovens based on input parameters.

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    This study examined the sound absorption properties of needle-punched nonwoven fabrics. Finer fibers were found to produce nonwovens with higher sound absorption coefficients due to their greater surface area and ability to form tortuous pathways. Needling depth and density, as well as nonwoven areal density, thickness, and specific airflow resistance also impacted sound absorption. The addition of aerogels to nonwovens further increased their sound absorbing properties. An artificial neural network model best predicted the sound absorption coefficient of nonwovens based on input parameters.

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    This study examined the sound absorption properties of needle-punched nonwoven fabrics. Finer fibers were found to produce nonwovens with higher sound absorption coefficients due to their greater surface area and ability to form tortuous pathways. Needling depth and density, as well as nonwoven areal density, thickness, and specific airflow resistance also impacted sound absorption. The addition of aerogels to nonwovens further increased their sound absorbing properties. An artificial neural network model best predicted the sound absorption coefficient of nonwovens based on input parameters.

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    STUDY ON SOUND ABSORPTION OF

    NEEDLE-PUNCHED NONWOVENS

    Abstract

    The purpose of this research work is to study the acoustic performance of needle-punched

    nonwoven fabrics in order to better understand their acoustic behavior in relation to fibre

    and process parameters, web laying techniques, design of multi-layered composite

    nonwovens and incorporation of aerogels within them. This also aids in predicting the

    sound absorption coefficient (SAC) of nonwovens by different modeling approaches using

    appropriate parameters. The effect of fibre denier and its cross-sectional shape on the sound

    absorption of polyester needle-punched nonwovens has been investigated. Ideally, the

    nonwovens produced from 6-denier 4DG fibres should have shown higher SAC due to

    larger fibre surface area than the other fibres used in this study. But, interestingly, it has

    been observed that nonwoven produced from 2-denier trilobal fibres exhibited highest SAC

    followed by those produced from 2-denier round fibre, 6-denier fibres having 4DG, hollow

    and round cross-sections. Nonwovens produced from finer fibres have higher SAC. Finer

    fibres offer higher airflow resistance due to more number of fibres get aligned in z-direction

    of nonwoven fabric, thus forming tortuous channels for the encountering sound waves,

    consequently greater amount of sound waves get dampened in the fabric structure.

    The interactive effects of depth of needle penetration and punch density employed

    during needling and areal density of nonwovens on properties of nonwovens such as

    thickness, bulk density, mean flow pore size and specific airflow resistance are reported.

    Then, the effect of these properties on sound absorption has also been analyzed. The depth

    of needle penetration predominantly affects the thickness and bulk density of nonwovens

    compared to punch density. Mean flow pore size in fabric considerably reduces while

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    increasing the areal density of the web. The areal density further significantly affects the

    specific airflow resistance. It is found that there is a statistically good agreement between

    the specific airflow resistance and average SAC (sound absorption coefficients) in terms of

    high coefficient of determination.

    The importance of fibre orientation and its distribution in needle-punched

    nonwovens on acoustical performance has been investigated. This study has been carried

    out by varying the web laying techniques such as carded (parallel-laid and cross-laid) and

    air-laid (random-laid) webs. The type of webs affect pore size distribution and SAC of

    needle-punched nonwovens. Nonwoven produced from random-laid web exhibits highest

    SAC followed by the cross-laid and parallel-laid. The results further indicate that

    orientation of fibres in the nonwoven fabric is an important structural characteristic

    affecting sound absorption.

    In the case of multi-layered nonwovens, the effects of denier and cross-sectional

    shape of the fibres, and layering sequence on sound absorption have been investigated using

    polyester fibres of different linear densities and cross-sectional shapes. The fibre webs were

    produced on a carding machine, each with 330 g/m2 as a single layer and then three layered

    webs (1000 g/m2) were needled. Among the multi-layered single-fibre nonwoven fabrics

    studied, nonwoven produced with 0.9-denier-solid (S/S/S) fibres exhibits highest average

    SAC followed by those produced from 2-denier-trilobal (T/T/T) fibres and 6-denier-hollow

    (H/H/H) fibres. The effect of layering sequence on SAC is analyzed. In order to achieve

    high SAC with multi-layered nonwovens, it is preferable to place the nonwovens such that

    its face layer having finer fibres must be closer to the sound source.

    A study on sound absorption behavior of aerogel/PET fibre nonwoven composites

    having different amount of silica is reported. The silica content were varied during in-situ

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    synthesis of silica aerogels in the nonwovens by changing their Methanol

    (MeOH)/tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) molar ratio. The silica aerogel/PET nonwoven

    composites exhibit higher sound absorption compared to untreated PET nonwoven fabric

    for the entire 1/3rd octave frequency range of 50 Hz to 6300 Hz. Moreover, it is found that

    silica content in the structure influences the sound absorption of composites i.e., higher the

    silica content, higher the sound absorption. Increasing the silica content in fabric reduces

    the mean flow pore size and increases the specific airflow resistance of materials; causing

    efficient damping of sound waves in the structure. The aerogel incorporated nonwoven

    composites achieved about 37% higher acoustic absorption than that of the untreated

    nonwovens. Hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of aerogel nonwovens have also been

    investigated to explore their durability.

    A comparative analysis of New Delany-Bazley (NDB) model, artificial neural

    network (ANN) model and regression model has been carried out to predict the SAC of

    nonwovens at 1/3rd octave intervals for the frequency range, 50 to 6300 Hz. The NDB

    model is derived from the well-known Delany-Bazley power law equations. The degree of

    prediction accuracy of SAC in terms of correlation coefficient, mean absolute percentage

    error and mean square error are observed to be the highest for ANN model, followed by

    NDB model and regression model. Sound frequency is found to be the foremost parameter

    affecting the SAC, followed by airflow resistivity of nonwoven fabric.

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