A novel composite sound absorber with recycled rubber particles

A new kind of composite sound absorber has been fabricated, using recycled rubber particles with good attenuation property as sound energy attenuation layer, low characteristic impedance materials such as polymer porous foam or perforated panel as matching layer. Its’ attractive characteristics include: low-cost, broad-band sound absorption, thin in thickness and relatively simple processing. An acoustic transmission analytical model is developed and successfully applied to evaluate the sound absorption of the composite absorber.