Design of microperforated nanofibrous membrane coated nonwoven structure for acoustic applications

In this paper, a promising acoustic structure for noise reduction was prepared, in which microperforated nanofibrous resonant membrane together with nonwovens were used. The role of microperforated nanofibrous film, the effect of perforation parameters, cavity and the assembly sequence of the composite fibrous structure on sound absorption performance has been studied. This structure effectively combined the porous sound absorbing, micro-perforated absorbing and membrane resonance mechanisms, which can improve the sound absorbing performance without weight and thickness penalty offering a competitive advantage in noise reduction. In addition, the composite materials exhibited favorable performance in a wide-frequency regime under the condition of appropriate assembly sequence and perforation parameters.