Practical Concerns Associated with Single-Number Ratings in Measuring Sound Transmission Loss Properties of Partition Panels
IR@NPL: CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi
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Practical Concerns Associated with Single-Number Ratings in Measuring Sound Transmission Loss Properties of Partition Panels
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Garg, Naveen
Kumar, Anil Maji, Sagar |
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Acoustics
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The paper presents an extensive review investigating the practical aspects related to the use of single-number ratings used in describing the sound insulation performance of partition wall panels and practical complications encountered in precise measurements in extensive frequency range from 50 Hz to 5 kHz. SWOT analysis of various single number ratings is described. A laboratory investigation on a double wall partition panel combination revealed the significant dependence of STC rating on transmission loss at 125 Hz attributed to 8 dB rule. An investigation conducted on devising alternative spectrums of aircraft noise, traffic noise, vehicular horn noise and elevated metro train noise as an extension to ISO 717-1 C-tr for ascertaining the sound insulation properties of materials exclusively towards these noise sources revealed that the single-number rating R-w + C-tr calculated using ISO 717-1 C-tr gives the minimum sound insulation, when compared with R-w + C-x calculated using the alternative spectrums of aircraft noise, traffic noise, etc., which means that material provides a higher sound insulation to the other noise sources. It is also observed that spectrum adaptation term C-x calculated using the spectrum of noise sources having high sound pressure levels in lower frequencies decreases as compared to ISO 717-1 C-tr owing to significant dependence of C-tr at lower frequencies.
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Polish Scientific Publishers
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2013
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Article
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application/pdf
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http://npl.csircentral.net/3090/1/Practical%20Concerns%20Associated%20with%20Single-Number.pdf
Garg, Naveen and Kumar, Anil and Maji, Sagar (2013) Practical Concerns Associated with Single-Number Ratings in Measuring Sound Transmission Loss Properties of Partition Panels. Archives of Acoustics, 38. pp. 115-124. ISSN 0137-5075 |
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http://npl.csircentral.net/3090/
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