“…Similar with the polyurethane foam, porous metal was another common porous material used in the field of sound absorption [8,17,22,27,29,33,35]. Besides common standard porous metal, some novel sound absorbers had been proposed, such as uniform compressed porous metal [35], gradient compressed porous metal [8,22,27], microperforated compressed porous metal panel [29], and so on. The horizontal comparisons of the actual average sound absorption coefficient of the optimal composite sound absorbing structure with that of other porous materials were conducted when total thickness was 20 mm, as shown in Table 5.…”