Research on Correlation between Urban Low-Noise Pavement Air Voids and Sound Absorption Coefficient

Abstract:

This paper test sound absorption coefficient of different air voids specimen in reverberation chamber and low noise pavement field testing, which gets main frequency band range of pavement noise is 315~5000Hz, noise arrives at the peak of about 500Hz; the relationship of microphone height and sound pressure level is not obvious; the porous asphalt mixture which air voids is more than 20% has the upper sound absorption coefficient at the frequency of 400~1000Hz, and its noise reduction effect is obvious; There is a linear relationship between the air voids and the maximum absorption coefficient of asphalt mixture, increasing air voids can cause larger absorption coefficient; sound-absorbing property of the low noise asphalt pavement is one of the dominant mechanism of mitigation traffic noise.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 303-306)
• Pages: 2898-2901
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.303-306.2898
• Online since: February 2013
• Authors: Yan Liu, Bing Yang, Xiao Juan Zhang, Qiu Xin Xu
• Keywords: Air Voids, Sound Absorption Coefficient, Urban Low Noise Pavement

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