DESIGN AND IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF THE

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF A
METASURFACE VENTILATION WINDOW
Marcia Solís E-8-169-835.
Maestría en Ingeniería de Planta
 INTRODUCTION
In acoustic conditioning, structural designs of walls and
floors are usually contemplated, for example, and the
ventilation part is not given as much emphasis.

For this reason, the article Design and in-situ measurement

of the acoustic performance of a metasurface ventilation
window is chosen which mixes the acoustic insulation and
the efficiency in the ventilation of an enclosure through the
use of acoustic metasurfaces through a series of duct unit
cells.

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 ANALYSIS

Recent studies have discovered that acoustic metasurfaces possess great

versatility in designing novel acoustic systems. An earlier theoretical study
pointed out that acoustic metasurface constructed using an array of
resonant-duct unit cells can provide superior sound insulation while
allowing air to ventilate through the openings distributed on the surface.

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 ANALYSIS
• Natural ventilation is taken as one of
the ways of reducing energy
consumption, however the public is
concerned about its use since the
types of windows that are normally
installed do not offer sound
insulation, that has made the
technology have to innovate in
terms of design philosophy.
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Important meaning
• Transmission Loss (TL) a term widely
used when discussing sound
insulation of a partition. Also known
as sound insulation and sound
reduction index, but should not be
confused with the propagation loss
or the propagation transmission loss.
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 GOAL
The primary goals are to verify the design methodology,
validate the numerical prediction and demonstrate the
window performance using a fullscale experiment. To maintain adequate ventilation, the length of the
square hole c is required to be at least half of a or b,
whichever is smaller. The maximum c is set as
minimum c plus 0.06 m. Thicknesses of the

two sub-chambers d are both 0.02 m to keep the

window thin and flat.

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 DATA
It is already known that the hole size c not only affects
ventilation but also has great influence on the TL
performance and effective frequencies of the unit cell. In
each TL contour, the common trend is that noise reduction
is higher with smaller opening c, and the working frequency
is slightly shifted towards higher with an increasing c,

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 DATA
The lowest frequency range is achieved by 2x3 grid,
because it has tall and slender chamber (long a and narrow
b) to effectively lower the resonant frequency. Targeting
traffic noise peak at 1000 Hz, both 3x2and 3x3 grids can
provide a suitable attenuation zone.

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 DATA
The panels are cut by a CNC machine and firmly glued to
form a unit cell. Then 3X3 cells are stacked by applying 3M
VHB tape to ensure the connections are tight. The partition
with a meta-surface window is located between two rooms.

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 CONCLUSIONS
This study has presented an experimental investigation on the
sound insulation of a novel ventilation window designed using
acoustic metasurface principle. The new window design may
overcome the long-standing challenges of traditional ventilation
windows such as poor sound insulation, insufficient ventilation,
bulky window size and lack of transparency.

The sound insulation performance of the window prototype has

been determined in-situ using the two-room testing method. The
experimental results agree with the predictions and demonstrate
the superior noise reduction ability of the proposed window.

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 THANKS

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