Objective: D65 is a type of horn of Diameter 65mm and mainly
consists of a resonator and a diaphragm which are separated by an air column
which is responsible for the functioning of the horn. The resonator of the horn
is 0.6mm in thickness and attached to the diaphragm with the help of a washer.
The resonator consists of three humps in its design.
The functioning will
be best when the frequency of the air gap and resonator match or are almost
equal and this is analyzed by various FEM methods.
Methodology and Analysis: By using FEM we can easily find
out the frequency of the resonator but the frequency of the air column is a
fluid-solid interaction(FSI) problem. Advanced FEM algorithm was used for the
air column frequency and then by iterative method the frequency of both were mechartes.
From the analysis done, some factors which can improve the design are modifying
the dimension of the washer between resonator and diaphragm, like 0.5, 0.8, 1.0
etc and modification in the thickness of the resonator. Analysis is done by
using different thickness of the resonator for different dimension of the
washer. Few of the results are shown in the image.
Result and
Conclusion: From various analysis done it can be concluded that the dB and
quality of sound depends on the natural frequency of the air column and natural
frequency of the resonator. Smaller the gap the better will be the quality of
sound in the particular range. Since 0.6mm is the actual thickness of the
resonator which upon analysis was modified to 0.4mm so that the air column
volume was increased and hence the quality of sound improved. After changing
the thickness and the profile the output is found to be good i.e. 0.4mm
thickness and base is up from second hump and outer side by 0.8mm. Hence the
resonator design was optimized to produce maximum sound with high quality.
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