Papers by Alfonso Rodriguez-Molares
Tecniacustica 2009 Vol 3 2009 Isbn 8487095173, 2009
Tecniacustica 2009 Vol 4 2009 Isbn 8487095173, 2009
Tecniacustica 2009 Vol 4 2009 Isbn 8487095173, 2009
Due to the increasing use of renewable energies in cities, the tramway for public transportation ... more Due to the increasing use of renewable energies in cities, the tramway for public transportation is more and more demanded. But this fact derives in a increasing of environmental noise due to vibration transmissions through the railway to the pavement. For solving this problem elastic interlayers, made of several materials, have been inserted to absorb rail vibration. This means that the insertion loss can be easily measured at laboratories but there are no clear paths to predict how the system is going to behave in situ, like the influence of the pavement dimensions. This communication presents some results of a study of the mass-spring system with an elastic rubber interlayer by means of the Finite Element Method. This methodology allows predicting the insertion loss of the whole system.
Tecniacustica 2009 Vol 12 2009 Isbn 8487095173, 2009
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IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 2015
This article describes the relation between apodization in conventional focused imaging and apodi... more This article describes the relation between apodization in conventional focused imaging and apodization in coherent plane-wave compounding (CPWC). We pose the hypothesis that equivalent transmit beams can be produced with both methods if the transmit apodization is adequately transformed. We derive a relation between apodization in CPWC and in synthetic transmit aperture imaging (STAI), which we argue to be equivalent to conventional optimal multifocus imaging. We find that under certain conditions, the transformation of the apodization becomes trivial and the same window used in STAI can be applied for CPWC but extended to the whole angle sequence. We test the hypothesis with in silico data and find that the transformed apodization accurately mimics the objective transmit apodization, with differences in the lateral resolution between 3% and 6%.
2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2015
2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2015
2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2015
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015
A method is presented to reconstruct the geometry of specular reflectors with an ultrasonic array... more A method is presented to reconstruct the geometry of specular reflectors with an ultrasonic array based on the image source principle. The ultrasonic beam is focused at a point in space emulating a point source within the medium. The transmitted wave interacts with the specular reflector and propagates back to the array as if it were generated by an image source. The reflected wave is analyzed with a sound source localization algorithm to estimate the image source location, and the reflector geometry is extracted using the mirror equation for spherical reflectors. The method is validated experimentally and its accuracy is studied. Under ideal conditions the method provides an accurate reconstruction of the position, orientation, and radius of curvature of specular reflectors, with errors Δr < 0.2 mm, Δα < 3°, and ΔR/R0 < 0.2, respectively. The method performs very well in the presence of high levels of thermal and speckle noise, with no degradation of the reconstruction as long as SNRth > -3 dB (signal-to-thermal-noise ratio) and SNRsp > 7 dB (signal-to-speckle-noise ratio). An iterative scheme based on the proposed method is presented to reconstruct the geometry of arbitrary reflectors by subdividing the reflector boundary into smaller segments. The iterative scheme is demonstrated both numerically and experimentally.
10 pages, 7 figures.-- Communication presented at: Acústica 2008 (Coimbra, Portugal, 20-22 Oct 20... more 10 pages, 7 figures.-- Communication presented at: Acústica 2008 (Coimbra, Portugal, 20-22 Oct 2008), comprising: V Congresso Ibérico de Acústica, XXXIX Congreso Español de Acústica TecniAcústica 2008, Acoustics European Symposium, ExpoAcústica 2008. [EN] During October 2007, the new acoustic regulations on buildings have been published in Spain. This regulation not only includes the minimum values for acoustic insulation (façades, impact insulation, airborne insulation) but also an official catalogue with data of the most common building elements in Spain and two methods to design the acoustic solution for a new building: a simplified method and a general method. The last is based on the European Standards EN 12354-1 2 and 3. The Spanish Institute for Building "Eduardo Torroja"; and the Applied Acoustics Research Group of the Vigo University, Sonitum, have collaborated to offer a calculation tool programmed in Excel with the aim of helping to apply the general method. For...
12 pages, 12 figures.-- Communication presented at: Acústica 2008 (Coimbra, Portugal, 20-22 Oct 2... more 12 pages, 12 figures.-- Communication presented at: Acústica 2008 (Coimbra, Portugal, 20-22 Oct 2008), comprising: V Congresso Ibérico de Acústica, XXXIX Congreso Español de Acústica TecniAcústica 2008, Acoustics European Symposium, ExpoAcústica 2008. [EN] The new Spanish regulation about sound insulation in buildings (DB HR) laid the foundations for calculating the acoustic performance of dwellings by means of a method which stems from the simplified method of the European standard UNE 12354-1:2000. The input variables of this method are not only the acoustic characteristics of the elements, but also the dimensions and geometrical settings of each couple of rooms. There is a widespread belief that the worst case is covered if it is considered that both rooms have their four edges coincident. This supposition, which simplifies conveniently the large amount of case studies, is generally incorrect and, in some cases, it has important consequences in the sound insulation final result. ...
This invention refers to a system that allows blind users to explore three-dimensional environmen... more This invention refers to a system that allows blind users to explore three-dimensional environments by means of binaural cues. The systems uses real-time binaural synthesis of a collection of free-field point sources (acoustic vertices) whose arrangement mimics the geometry of a given environment, either real or imaginary. This invention improves the accessibility of computers and real environments (such as buildings) to the visually impaired.
Following the ISO 1996-2:2007 philosophy, the inverse relation of the standard uncertainty of the... more Following the ISO 1996-2:2007 philosophy, the inverse relation of the standard uncertainty of the equivalent sound pressure level with the number of vehicle pass-bys has been investigated, observing its dependence on the distance and traffic composition by means of a dynamic model. The model, based on Monte Carlo method and the Weyl-Ingard theory, is described. Its results are discussed and compared with experimental data.
The inverse relation of the uncertainty of the equivalent sound pressure level to the square root... more The inverse relation of the uncertainty of the equivalent sound pressure level to the square root of the number of vehicle pass-bys is investigated. The influence of the traffic spatial distribution is evaluated by means of a dynamic model, based on Monte Carlo and the Weyl-Ingard Theory. By least mean squares fitting of simulated results, the sound pressure level uncertainty is investigated taking into account the receiver position, road configuration and traffic flow balance.
Finite element methods have been intensively used during 90's to estimate structure-borne sou... more Finite element methods have been intensively used during 90's to estimate structure-borne sound transmission trough different elements. The results served to feed several models for describing the flanking transmission which enabled predictions of airborne and structure-born sound transmission by statistical energy analysis. However, the limited capacity of computers restricted the investigation of junction vibration attenuation mostly to homogeneous 2D plates. In 2007 the new IEC 10848-1 standard was published, presenting an experimental method to determine the flanking transmission between adjoining rooms in laboratories. Despite it meant a remarkable advance, the numerable amount of topologies usually found in real buildings make still difficult to achieve a complete characterization of all possible Kij just based on laboratory measurements. A combination of measurements and numerical calculations may give us a chance of improving the Kij models and extending the expressions ...
In order to estimate the influence of the sound level meter case on free-field measurements, a se... more In order to estimate the influence of the sound level meter case on free-field measurements, a set of simulations was performed using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The results indicate that the case influence cannot be neglected from above 250 Hz and above and that it depends strongly on the sound level meter geometry. The free-field correction curves associated to four common shapes have been calculated and by comparing them with the reference microphone correction curve, the case influence has been isolated. Finally a statistical approximation for case contribution to uncertainty has been obtained and extended uncertainty values are listed in octave bands.
Auralisation techniques are quickly growing in popularity. Through them, the auralisation of soun... more Auralisation techniques are quickly growing in popularity. Through them, the auralisation of sound insulation has now become an indispensable tool for the evaluation of the acoustic insulation of buildings, specially to suitably communicate to the public the sound experience hidden behind the swarm of numerical predictions. Increasing the interaction between the user and the simulated environment leads to a more realistic and immersive evaluation of the sound space. Here we introduce the implementation of the new auralisation engine in SONarchitect ISO. This engine allows the user to move around the receiving room while experiencing binaural sound in real time, enhanced with the addition of several new features, such as head tracking by means of an inertial unit incorporated to the headset, simulation of the coherent interference near walls and corners, dynamic balance between the direct and reverberant energy, and real time interpolation of the head related transfer functions (HRTF...
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