Structural & Acoustics Blog Posts

App: Ensuring the Efficiency of an Absorptive Muffler Design
We discuss a simulation app that lets engineers easily modify the dimensions of an absorptive muffler design, its ambient working conditions, and the material properties of the porous liner.

TNO Advances Virtual Material Design in 3D Printing
Researchers at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) are investigating how 3D printing can be applied to material design. Get the full story.

Modeling the Dynamics of a Gyroscope
Gyroscopes and spinning tops aren’t just old-fashioned toys. Using models of these 2 structures, we illustrate the remarkable properties of rotating bodies.

Testing the Safety of Reinforced Concrete Beams with an App
The Parameterized Concrete Beam demo app is based on a model of a reinforced concrete beam. It can be used to easily compute the beam’s deflection and axial stress over a range of parameters.

The Loudspeaker Celebrates 100 Years of Use and Influence
Did you know that December 10, 2015 marked 100 years since the first public display of a loudspeaker? Explore the device’s rich history and simulation’s role in advancing its design…

Analyzing a Novel Pin Fin Microchannel Design with Simulation
Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Central Florida created a novel pin fin design and analyzed its heat transfer efficiency with COMSOL Multiphysics®.

New Impedance Boundary Conditions for Acoustics Simulations
Get a comprehensive overview of the Impedance boundary conditions and how to use them for your acoustics simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics®.

Accessing External Material Models for Structural Mechanics
In COMSOL Multiphysics®, you can access not only material models derived from external libraries but also material functions programmed by yourself. We demonstrate with concrete damage model.