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2023 (English)In: Forum Acusticum Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Torino, 11-15 September 2023, European Acoustical Association , 2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The most popular single-number quantities (SNQs) of impact sound insulation in Europe are L'n, w and L'nT, w. They are based on measurements within 100-3150 Hz. Recently, it was proposed that the measurements should be extended down to 25 Hz for wooden floors, and L'nT, w+CI, 25 should replace L'nT, w. The purpose of this study is to analyze which of the two SNQs, Ln, w or LnT, w+CI, 25, predicts the annoyance of natural impact sounds better for wooden floors. We conducted a psychoacoustic experiment, where 52 participants rated the annoyance of 75 impact sounds. As stimuli, five types of natural impact sounds were used. They were recorded for 15 different wooden floors built in an impact sound insulation laboratory, where also their SNQs were measured. Based on correlation analysis, Ln, w explained annoyance of natural impact sounds equally well or better than Ln, w+CI, 25, depending on impact sound type Therefore, based on perception, it seems to be sufficient to conduct measurements within 100-3150 Hz for wooden floors and assess their sound insulation using L'nT, w or L'n, w © 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Acoustical Association, 2023
Series
Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, ISSN 2221-3767
Keywords
impact sound insulation, psychoacoustics, single-number quantities
National Category
Building Technologies
Research subject
Technology (byts ev till Engineering), Civil engineering
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-133894 (URN)9788888942674 (ISBN)
Conference
10th Forum acousticum, 11-15 September, 2023, Torino, Italy
2024-12-102024-12-102024-12-10Bibliographically approved