A Study on Effectiveness of Muffler on a Two-wheeler vehicle Noise

Abstract: In today's world, noise pollution is the biggest problem. The major cause of noise pollution is due to the traffic noise. Traffic noise from highways creates problems in surrounding areas, especially where there is high traffic volume and at high speed. Noise pollution has hazardous effect on human health. In traffic noise, the major cause of noise is two wheeler vehicle noise. In order to minimize two-wheeler noise, study of two-wheeler motorcycle with different types of mufflers have been analysed.Acoustic power and sound pressure level at different engine speed with and without different types of mufflers have been studied and variations between them are investigated experimentally. Keywords: Traffic noise; Mufflers; Sound pressure level; Frequency spectrum; Insertion loss.