COMSOL Purchased for Research

COMSOL with the Acoustics Modelling module has been purchased by the Acoustics Group. The software will be primarily used for research into metamaterial design by the PhD students. Let's hope the investment is worth the cost! 

Royal Academy of Music Continue to Fund Acoustics Research

On the 12th March 2019 the Royal Academy of Music agreed to continue to fund acoustics research with London South Bank University. Since 2007 these two institutions have collaborated on hearing and the sound of performance. The current funding will support PhD student Doug Shearer complete his doctoral thesis on low frequency sound absorption. 

Memorial Lecture Given at the ISCE Conference

Visiting professor Dr Peter Mapp, was invited to give this year’s Warren-Barnet memorial lecture at the Institute of Sound & Communications annual seminar and exhibition. Peter spoke about The use of Psychoacoustics in the PA and sound system design  to a packed audience of over 75 delegates. This was the 5^th time that Peter has been invited to give the annual lecture in its 34 year history.  The lecture discussed the acoustic properties of the ear, sound localization, loudness and frequency response assessment as well as spatial hearing and the effects of echoes, reflections and the inherent latency in digital systems and the effect this can have on intelligibility and visual synchronization and the associated consequences for the hard of hearing.

abstract on Noise Exposure accepted for ICA 2019

The International Congress in Acoustics (ICA)  2019 has accepted the abstract of a paper entitled 'Noise exposure from explosions during handling small volumes of hydrogen/air mixture'. The paper was written by Dr Luis Gomez-Agustina, Dr Tony Averill and Dr James Ingram and will be presented in Aachen (Germany) during the renowned 23^rd International Congress of Acoustics which will take place between 09 and 13 Sept 2019. We hope you enjoy the paper and hope to see you in Aachen . 

Dr Stephen Dance to act an external examiner for Liverpool University

Dr Dance is acting as external examiner for Liverpool University. He is examining a MPhil thesis by Ms Thamasha Samarasinghe. The thesis is entitled, "Airflow resistivity measurement of alkaline earth silicate materials between room temperature and 800o C". 

Abstract submitted to Meta 2019

An abstract has been submitted to Meta 2019, the 10th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonics and Plasmonics. The conference will be hosted in Lisbon 23-26th July 2019. The paper is a joint collaboration between London South Bank University, University of Le Mans and the University Polytechnic of Valencia and is entitled, "Deep sub-wavelengths materials for controlling sound diffusion: Experimental validation and metadiffusers". 

Lilo experiments completed

On the 1st March 2019 PhD candidate Doug Shearer completed his research for the Royal Academy of Music. The final experiment - establishing the absorption of lilos was completed and the data analysed. The work will be presented at Inter-Noise 2019 in Madrid. Hope to see you there!