A Study on the Sound Resonating Barrier

음향공명 방음벽 연구

Noise barriers are widely used to reduce the sound level propagating from highways, railways or factories to residential areas. The reduced noise level at a receiver point is then determined by the diffracted waves around the edge of the barrier as well as by the transmitted waves through the barrier. For proper usage, many studies either theoretical or experimental have been made with the objective of precisely predicting the acoustic field and improving the noise attenuating properties of barriers. In this study, a simple scattering model, a line acoustic source scattered by an infinite cylinder, is introduced to simply investigate the sound attenuation efficiency of a sound-resonating barrier. From this model study, it is observed that the sound-resonating barrier can be used as a good sound-shielding element especially for the pure-tone noise generated from the transformer. Large sound-attenuation is achieved by applying the sound-resonating barrier to the large transformers in a substation.