Influences of parameters of film on acoustical absorption performance of copper film-copper fiber composite structure

•FFM demonstrates significantly higher sound absorption capacity than pure copper fiber;•Provides a theoretical basis for the calculation of sound absorption performance of FFM structure;•FFM can achieve effective wide-band sound absorption in the 10 mm thickness range;•The thinner the thickness of the FFM structure, the more obvious the improvement of sound absorption performance. Fiber porous materials excel at sound absorption, but their effectiveness suffers at thin thicknesses. This study proposed a novel copper film-copper fiber porous material (FFM) structure to overcome this limitation. We designed a composite material with improved sound absorption, by coating a thin copper film onto an existing copper fiber matrix. This innovative approach enables effective sound absorption when the sample thickness is small. Our analysis revealed that FFM structures are better than the individual copper film and fiber porous material regarding sound absorption, particularly near their resonance frequency. Notably, a 2 mm-thick FFM structure boasts an average sound absorption coefficient of 0.35, a remarkable fourfold increase compared to the individual copper fiber matrix (0.08). The further investigation explores the influence of copper film thickness and bond area percentage on acoustic performance. We successfully validate our simulation model against experimental data, enabling us to calculate energy consumption ratios for various design parameters. This provides research ideas for optimizing FFM structures for specific noise reduction applications.