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…
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…
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…
Welcome, Xueying!
Xueying Guan joined the Building Acoustics group as a PhD student on April 1st, 2022. Her PhD study will contribute to the research line on the development of sound-absorbing materials, focused on the acoustic material design by 3D printing of natural fiber composites. She will explore multifunctional possibilities and optimization of 3D-printed sound absorbers for…
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…
Welcome, Imran!
As of March 1st 2022, Imran Muhammad joined the Building Acoustics team as a post-doctoral researcher! He will be working on the project A digital learning platform for building acoustics. After his university education in physics, he continued his academic endeavors at Hanyang University Seoul, Korea as a research assistant in the architectural acoustic labs.…
In situ acoustic characterization of a locally reacting porous material by means of PU measurement and model fitting
Reliable data on acoustical properties of materials are crucial for the design of a desired acoustic environment as well as to obtain accurate results from acoustic simulations. Although the acoustical properties of materials can be obtained via laboratory measurements, situations where in situ measurements are needed are often encountered. In our recent paper published in…
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…
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…
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…
Dingding Xie joins Building Acoustics team
We are glad to announce that the virtual acoustics research theme is enforced by Dingding Xie. She is joining on a two-year CSC visiting scholarship. Dingding will contribute to the research line on room acoustics modelling for acoustic virtual reality, thereby utilizing a machine learning approach. Dingding holds a degree in Underwater Acoustics from the…
Inaugural lecture upcoming!
Maarten Hornikx turned full professor at July 1st of 2019. It is a good habit that new professors hold an inaugural lecture for the academic (and wider) community to introduce himself and his research area. The inaugural lecture of Maarten was initially scheduled in May 2020, but it would not surprise you that it has…
PhD defense Huiqing Wang
At October 6, 4PM local time, Huiqing Wang will defend his PhD thesis titled Room acoustic modeling with the time-domain discontinuous Galerkin method. Huiqing has further developed the discontinuous Galerkin method to predict sound propagation in rooms. The 1 hour defence can be attended online via this link in MS Teams. The PDF of the…
Welcome (back) Bram!
As of September 1st, Bram Botterman joined our group as a guest researcher. Bram graduated master with us some years ago and he carried out nice research on sound absorbing materials at that time (4TU sound absorbing glasses project, journal publication on sound absorbing materials). While leading his company Matude currently, he decided to come…
BOOST! project – A digital learning platform for building acoustics
Building Acoustics group initiated a new BOOST! education innovation project, ‘A digital learning platform for building acoustics’, supported by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This project aims to provide a digital educational platform that helps to improve the efficiency of the students learning, at a low effort of the involved teachers. One postdoc position…
Effects of sound environment on performance of studying for an exam in an open learning environment.
One of the functions of open-plan study environments is to study for exams. The influence of the background noise, that is different number of people talking in the background and different room acoustic conditions, on the (perceived) performance of students is investigated here. First author Ella Braat-Eggen (with a PhD from our group) is working…
Auralization of a car pass-by using measured impulse responses
In our recent open-access paper in Applied Acoustics, we publish a method to auralize a pass-by of a car in a street based on measured impulse responses. Listening tests have assisted to discover the influence of the resolution of impulse response source positions on audible differences. First author is Fotis Georgiou, he obtained his PhD from…
ASSA 2021 registration open
Autumn School Series in Acoustics (ASSA) 2021 is now open for registration! For registration and more information, please visit the website: https://assaeindhoven.org/
Paper about a local time stepping approach of the Discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method for room acoustics
Paper alert! Applying the Discontinuous Galerkin time-domain methods to room acoustics is time consuming if the mesh needs local refinement for geometrical reasons. In this JASA paper, a discontinuous time stepping approach is successfully presented, implying a release of the high computational constraint for meshes with strong local refinements. A next step in wave-based room…
Quantification of impact sound of lightweight wooden floors via heeldrops
Find out about our latest Acta Acustica paper! We experimentally explored the use of a heel drop as an impact source to quantify the impact sound performance of lightweight wooden floors. A impact force plate was used for this purpose. At low frequencies, the measurement quality using the help drop is higher compared to an…
Autumn School Series in Acoustics
On December 14th, we launched Autumn School Series in Acoustics (ASSA) website. ASSA is a yearly-returning one-week acoustic school on a post-graduate Ph.D. level which will be held at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) organized by the Building Acoustics group of the TU/e. The first ASSA will be held between October 31 – November 5,…
New Assistant Professor
Dr. Jieun Yang (in the picture above) was appointed to be assistant professor in acoustic materials. She is currently working as a postdoc in our group. Her appointment starts as of January 1st, 2021.
dr. Jikke Reinten!
On Thursday September 10th, Jikke Reinten defended her PhD thesis ‘Exploring the effect of the sound environment on nurses’ task performance: an applied approach focusing on prospective memory’ at TU/e. Congratulations, Jikke!
dr. Ella Braat-Eggen!
At Tuesday June 23th, Ella Braat-Eggen defended her PhD thesis ‘Auditory Distraction in Open-Plan Study Environments in Higher Education’ at TU/e! The defense was in a hybrid form, with promotors and limited audience on campus, and committee members and more audience present via videoconferencing. The thesis can be found here and a summary video on…
Podcast on Echolocation
The Universiteit van Nederland is an online platform where scientists share the most exciting insights from their field through short lectures for a wide audience. A podcast is now available at Universiteit van Nederland, in which Maarten talks about the capability of blind to ‘see’ via their ears through human echolocation. Listen to the podcast…
Kick-off Equal-Life project
The H2020 project Equal-Life had is kick-off event at 12-14 February in Utrecht (NL). The project will develop and test combined exposure data using a novel approach to multi-modal exposures and theirimpact on children’s mental health and development. From the Building Acoustics group, the involvement consists of Maud Dohmen, Ella-Braat, Maarten Hornikx and a new…
Acoustic Virtual Reality In Challenged Based Learning
For a design student learning acoustics may seem at times too abstract. We are currently developing an Acoustic Virtual Reality (AVR) platform to allow students to experience the sonic potential of their spatial designs in a multimodal immersive way. You can read more information about the project at this link.
Maarten in Podcast
Maarten has been interviewed by Lieven Scheire about his work in the Building Acoustics research group. This long interview (45 mins) is available as episode #15 of the Eindhoven University of Technology podcast series sound of science. The interview (in Dutch can be found here).
Virtual Acoustics @DDW
The Building Acoustics is present at the Dutch Design Week 2019 (19-27 October) in Eindhoven with a Virtual Acoustics demo. You can listen to your own voice in real-time in virtual environments with high realism. Read more about our story here and visit us. The entrance is free.
‘De Monitor’ TV broadcast
Maarten was asked in the Dutch TV documentary series ‘De Monitor’ about his opinion on citizen science initiatives related to to excessive noise in the Netherlands. The broadcast can be seen here.
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