Photo Denis Blanchet

Welcome to

dBPorous

dBPorous is where you can build/expand your own NVH materials database and increase your simulation accuracy while maintaining low acquisition cost.

You can also import your existing material properties in our platform and use all its functionalities to store, show, compare and download any material data.

You want the utmost security level for your NVH data? Choose "dBPorous On-Premise" and share your NVH data with your colleagues worldwide through your company secure servers.


Can't find what you need?

Join dBPorous and tell us which materials you would like to get. We can contact manufacturers directly and get them to join as well. The more a material is requested, the more chance it has to be added to our database quickly.

Denis Blanchet

dBPorous in a nutshell

Check icon
TOP QUALITY NVH PARAMETERS

Materials tested by Best-in-class laboratories only

Check icon
FRACTION OF MARKET PRICE

From 30% to 70% “OFF” market price

Check icon
IMMEDIATE RESULTS

Eliminate weeks of wait for test results

Check icon
UNIFIED INTERNAL DATABASE

Combine any material data in web & On-Premise version

Our ecosystem

We look forward to counting you among our subscribers and continue to facilitate your access to high quality NVH material properties for your simulation projects.

Testimonial

" Since 2011 Denis Blanchet cooperated with the German Wind Noise Working Group composed of Audi, Daimler, Porsche and Volkswagen. Denis contributed to the development of a new numerical approach that allows to describe and estimate the interior wind noise using CFD generated surface pressure distribution. He has a broad knowledge in SEA-, BEM- and FEM-Methods such that we had a valuable collaboration with him for related validation experiments. "


Andreas Businger, Volker Schwarz, Joerg Ocker, Michael Hartmann

Audi AG, Daimler AG, Porsche AG, Volkswagen AG

, German Wind Noise Working Group

Benefits

Request a free demo of dBPorous
User icon

Users

Subscribe yearly or do a one-time purchase

Grow your material database over time with our annual subscription plans (Intro, Basic, Advanced or Expert)

Check icon
Recognized Labs only

Material characterization from independant laboratories with best worldwide reputation

Check icon
Shared Reports Cost

Share cost of Biot Parameters testing to lower acquisition cost and/or get more reports for a given budget

Check icon
View your purchases in MydB

View and compare properties in your own MydB area. You can also upload your own data to share database with your team

Check icon
New Reports Each Year

Choose from a wide variety of Foam, Fiber and Damping layer materials with a yearly subscription

Check icon
Expert technical knowledge forum

Access technical content through articles, tech. briefs and interviews with experts to better model porous media in your simulations

Check icon
Manufacturer icon

Manufacturers

Check icon
Showcase your acoustics products

Add your products to dBPorous and increase your brand awareness for the worldwide acoustic simulation community

Check icon
Get a manufacturer's page on this site

Join dBPorous and get a web page with description of your company, contact info and link to your company's website

Check icon
Make your logo visible

Your company logo will appear on the products card, on your web page, on manufacturer's list and in the 'compare' page

Check icon
Build credibility by posting on the forum

Share your expertise, get recognized as an expert in the field of porous material simulation and testing by posting on our forum

Check icon
Get regular user navigation behavior reports

Learn how many users clicked on your logo, your products cards, your products page and your manufacturer pages

Check icon
Network with noise and vibration engineers

Benefit from a worldwide network of 11,000+ acoustics related engineers in contact with dBVibroAcoustics to increase your brand's visibility on dBPorous' forum

Full solution to acquire and manage NVH data

3 Easy Steps to Follow

Buy tokens
BUY TOKENS
Process Subscribe

Acquire dBPorous tokens by purchasing one of our subscription plan and get up to 70% off testing market prices.

Process tokens
SHOP dB
Shop database

Use tokens to buy material lab reports (CAE property cards) and store them in your own dBPorous private database called "MydB".

Download reports
DOWNLOAD
Process Subscribe

Download your material lab reports and CAE material property cards from MydB into your company numerical models.

How it all works

MANUFACTURERS

Manufacturers supply material samples and material tech data. dBPorous create company and product pages

USERS

Users purchase a subscription plan and use tokens to get experimental data in lab reports and in any CAE software formats

dBPorous explainer animation

OUR SUPPORT TEAM

Our Support Team ensures appropriate NVH materials samples are accurately tested and added to our database

LABORATORIES

Laboratories perform NVH experimental tests, create reports. Also get a dedicated laboratory page

Lab Report contents

Lab researchers photo
TYPE 1: Acoustic properties
  • Density
  • Surface absorption (normal incidence measured)
  • Biot parameters
    • Flow resistivity
    • Porosity
    • Tortuosity
    • Viscous characteristic length
    • Thermal characteristic length
    • Static thermal permeability
TYPE 2: Elastic properties
  • Young’s Modulus
  • Poisson’s ratio
  • Damping Loss Factor
TYPE 3: Visco-elastic properties
  • Density
  • Poisson’s ratio
  • Young's or Shear Modulus (freq/temp dependent)
  • Damping Loss Factor (freq/temp dependent)
TYPE 4: Metamaterials properties
  • Density
  • Transmission loss
  • Surface absorption

    NOTES:

  • All results in PDF, MS Excel and other popular CAE material card format such as:
    • NASTRAN, ACTRAN, VPS, COMSOL, VA One, wavesix, SEA+, Nova, AlphaCell, Main3A…
  • All results following widely accepted ASTM/ISO standards and /or best industry practices
  • Results with standard deviation

How do you want to use dBPorous?

On the web? On your internal company servers (On-Premise)? Or a mix of the two?

dBPorous offers not only the possibility to buy high quality and low cost material properties of NHV products but it also offers a framework where you can store/view/compare/edit your purchases.
Furthermore, you can include your own material properties accumulated over the years into dBPorous and make them available to your NHV simulation teams around the world.

On the Web

Process Subscribe

dBPorous on the Web follows a 3-step process: Subscribe-Shop-Download. 1) Get tokens from a subscription plan, 2) Use these tokens to buy material properties of available materials in database and store in MydB, 3) download the properties from MydB in the form of a lab report and your favorite CAE software material card. Your data is ready to be used into NVH numerical models.

Furthermore, you can import your own company material properties into your secure company section in dBPorous on the Web and make these properties available to your NHV simulation teams around the world.

On-Premise and Web

Process Subscribe

dBPorous On-Premise and Web follows a similar process as the web version, however your company data is more secure since the MydB section is directly located onto your internal company servers. This option therefore offers added data security and the ability to purchase material properties from dBPorous On the Web and importing these into your internal company server.

Furthermore, you can import your own company material properties into dBPorous On-Premise and share with your NHV simulation teams around the world through your company network.

On-Premise

Process Subscribe

dBPorous On-Premise offers the maximum security dBPorous can offer. The MydB section is installed on your internal company servers and normally do not allow your employees the ability to import data from dBPorous on the Web. However, if needed, your dBPorous On-Premise admin can import data from dBPorous on the Web as an ad-hoc solution.

Furthermore, you can import your own company material properties into dBPorous On-Premise and share all data with your NHV simulation teams around the world through your company network.