In typical laboratory volumes (50-80 m(3)) and at low frequencies (50-100 Hz), the acoustic field is non-diffuse due to the presence of source and receiving room modes. Under such conditions, standard sound insulation measurements and descriptors are not adequate to correctly characterize the insulating property of partitions or flooring systems. The "modal approach" allows to evaluate the airborne sound insulation by the determination of modal transmission loss, or modal sound insulation, of a single mode passing through the partition. Proper normalization terms and an extension method to one-third octave bands are also introduced. The same approach is applied to impact sound insulation measurement. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Sound Insulation of Building Elements at Low Frequency: A Modal Approach / Prato, Andrea; Schiavi, Alessandro. - In: ENERGY PROCEDIA. - ISSN 1876-6102. - 78:(2015), pp. 128-133. [10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.127]

Sound Insulation of Building Elements at Low Frequency: A Modal Approach

Andrea Prato;Alessandro Schiavi
2015

Abstract

In typical laboratory volumes (50-80 m(3)) and at low frequencies (50-100 Hz), the acoustic field is non-diffuse due to the presence of source and receiving room modes. Under such conditions, standard sound insulation measurements and descriptors are not adequate to correctly characterize the insulating property of partitions or flooring systems. The "modal approach" allows to evaluate the airborne sound insulation by the determination of modal transmission loss, or modal sound insulation, of a single mode passing through the partition. Proper normalization terms and an extension method to one-third octave bands are also introduced. The same approach is applied to impact sound insulation measurement. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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