Sound absorption characteristics of microperforated absorbers for random incidence

Based on previous work on "Statistical absorption coefficient of microperforated absorbers", in which it was shown that theoretical results agree well with experiments on the absorption characteristics of microperforated absorbers (MPA) for random incidence. Further work was carried out in this investigation of the statistical absorption coefficients of MPA in random fields by computation, in order to find the best structure of MPA. It is established that ordinarily the absorption curves of MPA for random incidence and that for normal incidence are quite alike, only that the absorption coefficients are more or less reduced and the whole curve is shifted to higher frequencies without any change of shape. But when the perforate constant k = d[(SQRT)(omega)po/4eta)] where d is the diameters of perforations in mm and fo, the absorbers resonance frequency is reduced below 2, say, secondary absorption bands start to play more important role. Pretty soon, they merge with the main absorption band and form a long tail of the latter, extending the absorption far into high frequencies, raising the resulting absorption band to three, four or more octaves. The behavior of the secondary absorption bands is discussed.