• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.124-134
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• 2016

Research on low height noise barriers installed adjacent to railways to reduce the height of the noise barrier has actively progressed in many countries except Korea. The performance of low height noise barriers is evaluated to identify barrier acoustic characteristics using a scale model of the barrier in the present research. As shown in the experimental results, if it is considered the installation of 'ㄱ' type noise barrier, sound absorption material should be installed on both the top and the vertical surfaces of the barrier to improve insertion loss. Also, an analytical method such as the boundary element method, rather than a simple empirical equation, is required to evaluate the insertion loss of the barrier. In addition, noise level increase in passenger position is very small if a barrier with sound absorption material is installed. Finally, the two dimensional boundary element method is implemented to predict the acoustic characteristics of the low height barrier; the possibility of the application is confirmed from a comparison of the results of measurements and predictions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.25-31
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• 1995

본 연구는 방음벽의 성능예측을 위해 BEM의 접근 방법을 시도하였으며 범용 음향 소프트웨어인 Sys-noise 5.2의 direct collocation bem을 사용하여 반무한 평면 방음벽에 대한 해석을 수행하였으며, 그 결과를 검증하기 위해 Maekawa에 의한 근사해와 해석적 점근해에 비교하였다. 또한, 수음점이 방음벽으로부터 떨어진 거리, 방음벽의 폭, 방음벽의 높이에 따른 삽입손실을 계산하였고, 방음벽에 흡음처리를 한 경우와 방음벽상단의 형상변화에 따른 삽입손실의 변화를 계산하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.203-206
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• 2004

발포알루미늄을 이용한 방음벽은 경량화가 가능하고 유지 및 보수가 편리하며, 기존의 흡음형 방음벽에서 주로 사용되는 글래스 울 등에 비해 환경 친화적 특성을 갖고 있다. 본 연구에서는 발포알루미늄 방음벽의 흠음성능을 평가하고, 흡음률을 향상시키기 위한 실험내용을 다루었다. 발포알루미늄 배후 공기층 내에 다양한 형상의 구조를 추가하는 실험을 통해 발포알루미늄 방음벽의 NRC 를 0.2 정도 항상 시킬 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1984.12a
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• pp.45-45
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• 1984

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.317-320
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 2004 년도 춘계학회에 발표한 다중 wedge와 방음벽에 의한 음파의 회절 계산방법[1]을 여러가지 형태의 방음벽에 적용하였으며 BEM과 비교하여 정확성을 확인하였다. 상단 일부가 꺾인 방음벽에 대해 꺾는 각도, 길이변화에 따른 삽입손실을 계산하였으며 여러가지 높이의 수음점에 대해 회절을 계산하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.449-455
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• 2001

도로교통소음의 저감을 위해 설치되는 방음벽의 성능평가를 위해서는 흡음률 및 투과손실과 같은 음향성능에 대한 평가뿐만 아니라, 풍압 및 충격하중과 같은 구조성능과 방음판 제작에 사용되는 재질에 관한 성능평가도 수반되어야 한다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이러한 방음벽의 성능평가를 위한 음향 구조 및 재질에 관한 시험 및 평가방법을 제시하였다.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.192-198
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• 1993

옥외에서 발생하는 소음은 음원과 수음점 사이의 시선을 차단하는 장애물을 설치하는 방법이외에는 달리 방도가 없는 경우가 많다. 빛과 마찬가지로 소리도 시선이 차단되면 소리의 그늘이 지는데 빛의 경우보다는 상당히 강한 음장이 이 그늘에 존재한다. 그늘 영역에서의 음장은 소리의 회절현상에 기인하는 것으로서 회절음장은 곧 방음벽의 차음효과를 좌우한다. 방음벽의 차음효과는 잉여감쇠(excessive attenuation)로 표시되는데 잉여감쇠에 영향을 주는 인자는 방음벽의 기하학적 조건, 음향학적 성질, 설치지면, 주변지형, 풍속 및 온도분포와 같은 기상조건, 음원의 특성 등 다양하지만 가장 기본적인 인자는 기하학적인 조건이다. 본고는 방음벽의 원리에 국한하여 살펴보기 위해 기술된 것이므로 주로 판 또는 쐐기 형태의 물체에 의한 회절현상을 취급하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.223-233
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• 2016

Design of a vegetation type sound barrier was presented as a noise barrier on the boundary of neighborhood facilities including schools, and apartments. The suggested noise barrier is made of unit blocks that are to be formed by stacking over the wall structure containing the plant and soils in the blocks. The advantage of the vegetation noise barrier is to acquire not only sound absorptive effects of plants and soils, but also sound diffusive effect caused by the irregular surface of the barrier which could eventually mitigate the noise. First, the optimum size of the units to obtain the highest noise reduction was investigated using 1/10 scaled model experiment, and sound attenuation experiments were carried out using a 1/2 mock-up model which is 2 m high and 5 m long. Total 1,137 unit blocks were made of synthetic woods with the size of $10{\times}10{\times}9cm$. These unit blocks were installed on the both side of the 1/2 mock-up steel framed noise barrier. As a result, it was revealed that the block typed vegetation noise barrier has 7 dB higher insertion loss in comparison with the general plane noise barrier. Also, it was found that the appropriate size of unit blocks is $20{\times}20cm$ which has large effect of sound insertion loss.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.629-637
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• 2016

In this paper, an investigation was conducted to evaluate the acoustic performance of low height noise barriers installed adjacent to rails; an easy-to-use approximation formula was suggested for the evaluation of insertion loss (IL), instead of using the boundary element method. At first, the acoustic performance of the low height noise barriers was measured in an anechoic chamber using a scaled down model; the overall IL according to the source location was analyzed with the equivalent IL contour line. Using the measurement results obtained from the scaled down model, an approximation formula was suggested for the IL of low height noise barriers having various shapes. Also, the prediction program was validated through a comparison between the actual measurement results in the anechoic chamber and the prediction results. Finally, using the prediction program, an approximation formula for IL was suggested for the low height noise absorption barriers. Considering the frequency characteristics of the noise sources of the train, the absorptive low height noise barriers have a 'ㄱ' type shape, a height of 1.0m, and a length of 0.5m when they are installed on the structure gauge for the train.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.549-558
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• 2012

A topology optimization method for phononic crystals is developed for the design of sound barriers, using the level set approach. Given a frequency and an incident wave to the phononic crystals, an optimal shape of periodic inclusions is found by minimizing the norm of transmittance. In a sound field including scattering bodies, an acoustic wave can be refracted on the obstacle boundaries, which enables to control acoustic performance by taking the shape of inclusions as the design variables. In this research, we consider a layered structure which is composed of inclusions arranged periodically in horizontal direction while finite inclusions are distributed in vertical direction. Due to the periodicity of inclusions, a unit cell can be considered to analyze the wave propagation together with proper boundary conditions which are imposed on the left and right edges of the unit cell using the Bloch theorem. The boundary conditions for the lower and the upper boundaries of unit cell are described by impedance matrices, which represent the transmission of waves between the layered structure and the semi-infinite external media. A level set method is employed to describe the topology and the shape of inclusions. In the level set method, the initial domain is kept fixed and its boundary is represented by an implicit moving boundary embedded in the level set function, which facilitates to handle complicated topological shape changes. Through several numerical examples, the applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated.