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Significance and implications of airborne sound insulation criteria in building elements for traffic noise abatement

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Title Significance and implications of airborne sound insulation criteria in building elements for traffic noise abatement
 
Creator Garg, Naveen
Kumar, Anil
Maji, Sagar
 
Subject Acoustics
 
Description The paper extensively reviews the airborne sound insulation criteria followed in Europe and the sound descriptors used. The work focuses on significance and need of having modified sound insulation criteria in Indian dwellings for harmonization of sound descriptors with that followed in other countries for controlling the ever increasing traffic noise. Sound regulations in terms of prescriptive and verification criteria are proposed referring to regulations adopted in Europe and recent studies conducted by Rasmussen et al. [1] and Scholl et al. [6]. Practical implications of these regulations particularly related to material aspects w.r.t minimum and comfort class is also discussed. A study of laboratory sound transmission characteristics of dry wall constructions and massive concrete constructions to ascertain whether these criteria could be fulfilled easily or not reveals that the drywall constructions in conjunction with massive concrete constructions are suitable for achieving acoustic comfort in dwellings. It is envisaged that a clear definition, understanding and practical implementation of sound regulations criteria can be pivotal in controlling the outside traffic noise.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2013-12
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/3063/1/Significance%20and%20implications.pdf
Garg, Naveen and Kumar, Anil and Maji, Sagar (2013) Significance and implications of airborne sound insulation criteria in building elements for traffic noise abatement. Applied Acoustics, 74 (12). pp. 1429-1435. ISSN 0003-682X
 
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