Comparison of holography, beamforming, and intensity-based inverse measurements on full-scale jet noise sources. Part II: Experimental results

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 1917-1917
Author(s):  
Blaine M. Harker ◽  
Alan T. Wall ◽  
Trevor A. Stout ◽  
Tracianne B. Neilsen ◽  
Kent L. Gee ◽  
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2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (3) ◽  
pp. 1917-1917
Author(s):  
Alan T. Wall ◽  
Blaine M. Harker ◽  
Trevor A. Stout ◽  
Tracianne B. Neilsen ◽  
Kent L. Gee

Author(s):  
Clifford Brown ◽  
Brenda Henderson ◽  
James Bridges

The noise created by a supersonic aircraft is a primary concern in the design of future high-speed planes. The jet noise reduction technologies required on these aircraft will be developed using scale-models mounted to experimental jet rigs designed to simulate the exhaust gases from a full-scale jet engine. The jet noise data collected in these experiments must accurately predict the noise levels produced by the full-scale hardware in order to be a useful development tool. A methodology has been adopted at the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory to insure the quality of the supersonic jet noise data acquired from the facility’s High Flow Jet Exit Rig so that it can be used to develop future nozzle technologies that reduce supersonic jet noise. The methodology relies on mitigating extraneous noise sources, examining the impact of measurement location on the acoustic results, and investigating the facility independence of the measurements. The methodology is documented here as a basis for validating future improvements and its limitations are noted so that they do not affect the data analysis. Maintaining a high quality jet noise laboratory is an ongoing process. By carefully examining the data produced and continually following this methodology, data quality can be maintained and improved over time.


2013 ◽  
Vol 569-570 ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Luis Marques dos Santos ◽  
Bart Peeters ◽  
Herman van der Auweraer ◽  
Luiz Carlos Sandoval Góes

The use of composites in the aircraft industry has generated a great need for structural health monitoring and damage detection systems, to allow for safer use of complex materials. Such is the case with helicopter blades - these components nowadays are mostly composed of carbon fiber or glass fiber reinforced plastics laminates, epoxy and honeycomb filled core structures. The use of composite materials on the main rotor blade also allows for more complex and efficient shapes to be designed, but at the same time, their use requires an additional effort when it comes to structural monitoring, since damage can occur and go unnoticed. This work presents experimental results for structural health monitoring method based on strain energy. The test subject is a full-scale composite helicopter main rotor blade, which is a highly flexible, slender beam that can display unusual dynamic behavior with orthotropic behavior. This damage detection method is based on the modal strain properties, and a damage detection index is used to identify and quantify damage. A test setup was built to carry out an experimental modal analysis on the main rotor blade. For that purpose, a total of 55 uniaxial accelerometers were used on the helicopter blade to measure the displacement modes of the structure. To compute the strain modes from the displacement modes, central differences approximation is used. Damage is introduced on the blade by attaching a small mass to two different locations. Experimental results show the possibility of locating damage in this case.


2018 ◽  
Vol 144 (3) ◽  
pp. 1356-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan T. Wall ◽  
Kent L. Gee ◽  
Kevin M. Leete ◽  
Tracianne B. Neilsen ◽  
Trevor A. Stout ◽  
...  

Crystals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 614
Author(s):  
Hsiao Mun Lee ◽  
Andi Haris ◽  
Kian Meng Lim ◽  
Jinlong Xie ◽  
Heow Pueh Lee

In the present study, a conventional plenum window was incorporated with perforated thin box in order to enhance its performance at frequency range which centralized at 1000 Hz as most of the common noise sources at city nowadays are centralizing around this frequency. The entire studies were conducted in a reverberation room. The effectiveness of jagged flap on mitigating diffracted sound was also studied. Three types of noises were examined in the current study—white noise, traffic noise and construction noises. The experimental results showed that the plenum window with perforated thin box could reduce 8.4 dBA, 8.7 dBA and 6.9 dBA of white, traffic and construction noises, respectively. The jagged flaps did not have significant effect on the plenum window’s noise mitigation performance. When frequencies were ranging from 800 Hz to 1250 Hz, when compared with the case of without perforated thin box, it was found that the perforated thin box had good acoustic performance where it was able to reduce additional 1.6 dBA, 1.6 dBA and 1.2 dBA of white, construction and traffic noises, respectively.


Author(s):  
Y. Gao ◽  
G. W. Zou ◽  
S. S. Li ◽  
W. K. Chow

Earlier studies on burning a pool fire in a vertical shaft model indicated that appropriate sidewall ventilation provision is a key factor for the onset of an internal fire whirl. Experiments on burning a pool fire inside a real-scale shaft model of 9 m tall were performed to further investigate the swirling motion. The full-scale modeling burning tests were carried out at a remote site in China. Four different ventilation openings were arranged. Results of onsetting of internal fire whirls for the four tests will be reported.


2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 1866-1870 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Yuan Tang ◽  
Shao Ping Meng

Through experiment study on full scale segmental model of Huaian bridge pylon, the stress distribution in the segmental model under the U shaped tendons and the horizontal load was measured. At the same time, the critical cracking load and the coefficient cracking safety class of the anchorage zone were obtained. At last, the theoretical analysis was compared with the experimental results, the theory agreed with the experiment well.


Author(s):  
Gary G. Podboy

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect that a planar surface located near a jet flow has on the noise radiated to the far-field. Two different configurations were tested: 1) a shielding configuration in which the surface was located between the jet and the far-field microphones, and 2) a reflecting configuration in which the surface was mounted on the opposite side of the jet, and thus the jet noise was free to reflect off the surface toward the microphones. Both conventional far-field microphone and phased array noise source localization measurements were obtained. This paper discusses phased array results, while a companion paper discusses far-field results. The phased array data show that the axial distribution of noise sources in a jet can vary greatly depending on the jet operating condition and suggests that it would first be necessary to know or be able to predict this distribution in order to be able to predict the amount of noise reduction to expect from a given shielding configuration. The data obtained on both subsonic and supersonic jets show that the noise sources associated with a given frequency of noise tend to move downstream, and therefore, would become more difficult to shield, as jet Mach number increases. The noise source localization data obtained on cold, shock-containing jets suggests that the constructive interference of sound waves that produces noise at a given frequency within a broadband shock noise hump comes primarily from a small number of shocks, rather than from all the shocks at the same time. The reflecting configuration data illustrates that the law of reflection must be satisfied in order for jet noise to reflect off of a surface to an observer, and depending on the relative locations of the jet, the surface, and the observer, only some of the jet noise sources may satisfy this requirement.


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