Study of Transmission Loss On Muffler
Study of Transmission Loss On Muffler
Study of Transmission Loss On Muffler
Abstract: Transmission loss is the main method which measure silencer sound deadening capacity. The most
effective noise elimination technique of compensator is muffler. Muffler is equipment which organizes sound
transmission and permits airflow pass and must satisfy definite muffling amount and frequency property. The study
builds model and theoretically studies and analyzes the internal sound problem and contrasts between FEM and
transmission matrix method and computes transmission loss. On the basis of experimental verification, combining
model analysis with sound pressure distribution graph, analyze muffling property deeply.
Corresponding Author: Wang Bing, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology,
Nanjing, 210094, China
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Transmission loss: Transmission loss means sound For the complex structure of the muffler, it can be
power level value difference at the entrance and the decomposed into simple combination of elements, the
outlet, which is TL = L T1 - L T2 , in which, L T1 , L T2 total transfer matrix is the accumulation of each unit
respectively, is sound power level of the entrance of the transmission matrix.
incident and sound power level of the muffler outlet at
(no reflective end). Considering thermal viscous effect rigid straight
Under normal circumstances, the muffler inlet duct tube:
cross-sectional area and environment is the same. So
above equation simplifies to: e − jK d kl T11 j 2 sin K c kl
[T1 ] =
h + + h − j 2h + h − T22
T11 + T12 / Y + T21Y + T22
TL = 20 log
2 while,
Fig. 2: The transmission loss of the transfer matrix method for calculation of subsonic and supersonic
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