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Building Acoustics coding days
The building acousticians of Eindhoven University of Technology have all been in Hapert (NL) in July 10-12. We have used our time to get to know each other better, among other things by comparing and discussing the results of our personality tests. We now know much better what kind of team we are, and have more…
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Unlocking the impact potential of research software in acoustics
The Building acoustics group has been granted an NWO open science fund project that enables the group to continue on its way to promote open research software. The project aims to foster a culture change regarding good practices in open science regarding the development and dissemination of research software in acoustics. Furthermore, it aims to…
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New paper: Analysing vibration absorbers in reducing low-frequency vibration of a floor-like lightweight floor: Comparison of experimental and computational results
When it comes to constructing lightweight structures, there are numerous benefits, such as using less material. However, one common issue with lightweight floor systems is that they tend to vibrate significantly at low frequencies. This vibration generates a lot of noise in the room below, causing annoyance. To address this problem without adding excessive weight,…
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PhD vacancy on modelling for perception of noise from urban air mobility aircraft in urban environments
Picture for inspiration from businesswire.com The Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR offers a great opportunity together with the TU/e. Interested in urban air mobility and the perception of noise? This PhD position might be your opportunity! As the project is hosted by NLR, all information and application details can be found at their website. Background…
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New approach to measure absorption of vegetated roofs
How much sound does a vegetated roof absorb? To answer that question an appropriate measurement method is needed. In our recently published Applied Acoustics paper by Chang Liu, Fotis Georgiou and Maarten Hornikx, the acoustic impedances of greens roofs were retrieved by fitting parameters of a surface impedance model by measurents on the roofs. It…
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Two PhD defenses on Building Acoustics!
At July 1st, both Yi Qin and Indra Sihar will defend their PhD theses. applicable to other types of lightweight floors. Indra Sihar present his work titled: Numerical modelling of transient low-frequency sound propagation and vibration in buildings. His defense starts at 11AM sharp and can be attended online via this Teams link, or at…
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PhD vacancy on modelling room acoustics via the diffusion equation
Are you interested to further develop a numerical model to model room acoustics, to be part ofa project on open source software development together with other researchers, acoustic consultants and (software) companies? Then apply no later than April 15 for this PhD position of the Building Acoustics group at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) photo: Pongsagorn…
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Residents of Groene Hart develop aircraft noise measurement network
Annette Pietersen, Guus Elkhuizen, Jan Leendert van den Heuvel and Maarten Hornikx are working together on a citizen measurement network Airplane noise Groene Hart. Source: nieuwkoper.nl The number of flights to and from Schiphol doubled between 1990 and 2018 to almost five hundred thousand a year. This growth has led to a significant increase in nuisance…
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Funding for open source project on room acoustics
NWO has funded the research proposal A new era of room acoustics simulation software: from academic advances to a sustainable open source project and community. The project will start in 2022, headed by Maarten Hornikx and prof. Alexander Serebrenik. The research and utilization summary can be found below. Here is an interview about the awarded…
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Collaboration with eScience center on room acoustics software
The ability to predict acoustics of indoor spaces is highly important to for example avoid noise annoyance in open plan office, to promote speech transmission in sport halls and to optimize acoustics in concert halls. Do to the nature of sound with its small wavelengths compared to the dimensions of typical indoor spaces, no researchers…
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