Measurement of perforated panels at a scaled measurement setup

In the paper, the authors present an ongoing research on the absorption and measurement uncertainty of perforated panels made at different scales. Knowing the similarity criteria describing the relation between a full-size perforated panel and its scaled equivalent, it is possible to conduct the measurements of the elements of significantly reduced size - with an area not exceeding 0.2 m². This procedure notably decreases the costs resulting from the production, transportation and storing the measurement samples. At the same time, the obtained values of sound absorption coefficient measured for the samples at 1:8 scale will characterize their full-size equivalents of geometry changed according to the derived similarity criteria. The paper discusses the possibilities of measurement of scaled samples.