Acoustics & Noise Control
Purdue is a renowned center for research and education in Acoustics and Noise Control, focusing on both computational modeling and real-world experimentation. With an array of data-gathering tools, and numerous facilities to conduct experiments, Purdue faculty and students are evaluating the acoustic properties of:
- Cars and trucks
- Airplanes
- Buildings
- Homes & offices
- Industrial machines
- Computer equipment
- Appliances
- Medical equipment
Researchers also focus on the human aspects of noise control. Experiments are determining how people react to the acoustic properties of their homes, workplaces, and vehicles. With this information, new noise control technologies can transform our everyday environment into a healthier and more productive place.
Facilities available:
- Anechoic rooms
- Reverberation rooms
- Tire-pavement testing up to 50 km/hr
- Two-wheel dynamometer with 67-inch rollers
- Anechoic wind tunnel up to 120 mph
- Audiometric testing room
- 64-microphone acoustical holography array
- Acoustical materials laboratory
Faculty in Acoustics & Noise Control
- Adaptive structures
- Mechanical metamaterials
- Robotic materials
- Programmable structures
- Multistable structures
- Structural nonlinearity
- Elastic instabilities
- Structural dynamics
- Nonlinear vibrations
- Structural Dynamics and Control
- Cyber-physical Systems
- Machine Vision
- Real-time Hybrid Simulation
- Damage Detection and Structural Condition Monitoring
- Cyberinfrastructure Development
- Vibrations and nonlinear dynamics
- Smart material systems
- Non-pneumatic tires
- Optimization of mechanical systems
- Additive manufacturing
- Advanced multi-scale manufacturing
- Ultrafast laser machining and processing
- Fiber optic sensors and environmental monitoring
- Spray-based nanoparticle coating and additive manufacturing
- Machining of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites
- Dynamics
- Nonlinear vibration of continuous systems
- Stability analysis
- Acoustic tweezers
- Acoustofluidics
- Acoustic metamaterials
- Ultrasound control
- Underwater communication
- Ultrasound imaging
- Multiphysics wave propagation theory
- Noise control and energy harvesting
- Acoustic Source Modeling and sound field reconstruction
- Active noise control
- Room acoustics simulation and auralization
- Noise control treatments
- Human perception of noise
- Acoustic and elastic metamaterial
- Fractional calculus and fractional mechanics
- Theoretical and computational mechanics
- Machine learning applied to computational mechanics
- Quantum algorithms for computational mechanics
- Structural health monitoring
- Wave propagation, structural dynamics and vibration control
- Adaptive structures
- Multi-process/multi-material additive manufacturing
- Nondestructive evaluation
- Advanced acoustic materials and metamaterials
- Ultrasonics