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http://dx.doi.org/10.5050/KSNVE.2016.26.3.340

Acoustic Properties of Three-room Coupled System by Connected Two Apertures  

Na, Hae Joong (Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Lim, Byoung-Duk (School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering / v.26, no.3, 2016 , pp. 340-349 More about this Journal
Abstract
A coupled room system consists of adjacent rooms and apertures where the sound energy is exchanged between the two rooms. Acoustically, a coupled room system shows a non-exponential decay profile. Most of the related researches have been to analyze the acoustic properties of two-room coupled system so far whereas three-room coupled system were seldom studied. In this regard, this paper aims to analyse the distribution of sound pressure level, sound decay curve of three-room coupled system and sound energy flow between them by using the acoustic diffusion model and to further verify them through experiments. Firstly, the sound pressure level distribution and mean sound pressure level in the steady-state condition are analyzed at various frequencies and source locations. Good agreements are observed in both experiments and analysis results. Secondly, two double slope effect quantifiers of sound attenuation, LDT/EDT and LDT/T10 are compared at various frequencies and for different source locations. The result indicates that LDT/T10, less affected by the early reflection patterns than LDT/EDT, is more suitable to the analysis and experiments of a multi-slope sound decay curve. Lastly, the sound energy flow in each room is analyzed based on the acoustic diffusion model. After the early decay stage, the sound energy is observed to flow from the room with a long reverberation time to the room with a short one.
Keywords
Coupled Room; Aperture; Statistical Acoustics Model; Acoustic Diffusion Model;
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