Segmented mass loading for loudspeaker cones

Goossens K. Segmented mass loading for loudspeaker cones. In: AES Conference: 2019 AES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 17. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20540

@inproceedings{Goossens2019_20540,
  author = {Goossens, Karel},
  title = {{Segmented mass loading for loudspeaker cones}},
  booktitle = {AES Conference: 2019 AES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO},
  note = {Paper 17},
  year = {2019},
  month = sep,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20540}
}

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AB  - "Common loudspeaker cones have axisymmetric geometry and are made of isotropic cone materials, such as paper. This leads to dominant radial cone breakup modes with ring-shaped vibration patterns that create peaks and dips in the frequency response. By adding local masses on the cone in a circle segment configuration, the isotropy is broken due to non-axisymmetric inertial forces. Consequently, the patterns of the breakup modes are changed from ring shaped zones into irregular areas with in-phase and out-of-phase contributions to the sound pressure that cancel each other partially. This leads to a smoothing of the SPL response."
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