Services

Matelys - AcV activties are organised according to three axis:

  • Consulting
  • Research
  • Education

These activities applied in the fields of

  • Building
  • Automotive
  • Aerospace
  • Material manufacturing

 

You can have a look at our comptences and technical know-how on APMR, the Acoustical Porous Material Recipes on the web.

 

Consulting

  • Sound absorbing and damping material expertise
  • Design of end user system for sound and vibration control
  • Numerical prediction of material/system performance
  • Dedicated software for vibro-acoustic prediction
  • Laboratory measurements
  • In situ diagnosis

 

Research

  • Sound absorbing and damping material optimisation / innovation
  • Acoustic, elastic and damping characterization methods
  • Vibro-acoustic porous material modelling
  • Specific related computational techniques

 

Education

On-demand educational programs:

  • Sound absorption or insulation
  • Outdoor and indoor sound propagation
  • Measurement techniques of acoustic or elastic parameters for porous media

 

Recent projects

  • Investigation of the potential of heterogeneous porous material for the reduction of enclosed machinery noise.
  • Design of multi-fonctional materials for automotive applications.
  • Optimisation of pore sizes, distribution and shape of mineral foams.
  • Accounting for anisotropy in material characterization.
  • Potential of heterogeneous porous material based on recycled products.
  • Increasing of the acoustical absorption of porous material by double porosity design.
  • Sound absorption preditions and measurements in impedance tube on large material samples (cross-section: 600 x 600 mm2, thickness up to 1 500 mm) used in anechoic rooms.
  • Characterization, sound absorption measurements and modeling of systems composed of perforated plates and porous materials for sound absorption and sound insulation applications in buildings.
  • Performances of damped concrete floors.