Company Tours
In Conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the Vibro-Acoustics Consortium
November 13, 2024
Some companies have indicated that tours are not open to their competition. Please let me know if you will be attending the tours and I will let you know if the respective companies express concerns. You may select which tours you would like to attend or you may select all tours.
Tour Schedule
12:30 p.m. Ebco Inc.
Address: 1330 Holmes Road, Elgin, IL 60123
2:00 p.m. Blachford Inc.
Address: 1445 Powis Road, West Chicago, IL 60185
3:30 p.m. IAC Acoustics
Address: 401 Airport Road, North Aurora, IL 60542
5:00 p.m. Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories
Address: 627 Riverbank Drive, Geneva, IL 60134
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Program and Agenda Fall Meeting of the Vibro-Acoustics Consortium
November 14, 2024
Northern Illinois University (NIU) - Naperville Campus
1120 E Diehl Rd
Naperville, IL 60563
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Pastries
9:00 a.m. Morning Presentations
- News and Notes
- Notes on Sound Intensity
- Prasad Vesikar (Siemens) Guest Presentation Lessons Learned on Blocked Force Determination
- Experimental Characterization of a Steel Spring Mount using Virtual Point Transformation
- Continuing Work on Determination of Blocked Forces for Compact Mechanical Sources
- Guidelines for Inverse Pellicular Modes Source Reconstruction
- Determination of Insertion Loss using AVL
- Measurement of Perforated Plate Insertion Loss and Flow Noise
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Afternoon Presentations
- Notes on Resonance
- Introduction to ANSYS Acoustics in Workbench
- Measurement of Noise from a Residential Air Conditioner
- Evaluation and Reciprocity Analysis of a Low Frequency Volume Velocity Source
- Source Characterization of a Ducted Source using Acoustic Free Velocity
- Guidelines for Inverse Panel Contribution Analysis Source Reconstruction
- Application of Folded MPP Samples in a Muffler
4:00 p.m. Adjourn