• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.329-337
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• 2017

In USA and UK, the standards of both reverberation time and background noise level have been established for the appropriate aural environment in classrooms. In order to realize this, guidelines for architectural planning and interior finishing have been also suggested. However, in Korea, there has hardly been any guidelines for satisfying background noise criteria and investigation about sound insulation performance of current walls of classrooms. The present study investigates the structure of outer wall and walls between classrooms of two middle schools in order to analyze the sound insulation performance against both exterior and interior noises. Acoustic parameters including transmission loss, standardized sound level difference, and signal to noise ratio have been measured and analyzed for sound insulation performance of walls and flanking noises. As a result, concerning the walls in between classrooms, it was found that walls of dry construction have greater sound insulation performance rather than the walls of wet construction especially in mid and high frequency bands. Also, It was revealed that thermopane, insulated pair glass, of outer walls, has greater sound insulation performance than the double window consisted of two single pane glass. Regarding flanking noises, the standards were exceeded when all windows, or windows and doors front onto corridor were opened. It denotes that students could be disturbed with the sound transmission by the interior noises.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.6
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• pp.621-628
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• 2022

The most realistic way to reduce noise outside the building, such as road traffic noise and aircraft noise, is to strengthen the sound insulation performance at the sound collecting points such as balconies, windows, and exterior walls of each building. However, in light of the reality that shading devices outside buildings are not yet widely used, there are not many studies on sound insulation performance improvement using external windows and window devices such as louvers and blinds. In particular, external blinds can not only block the inflow of strong sunlight in the morning and evening from the outside of the building, but also target the sound insulation effect that blocks the peak noise that occurs during commuting hours. In this study, a study was conducted to improve sound insulation performance against external noise by using an external electric blind (EEB), which is one of the most efficient window and door external shading devices. Various sound insulation performance tests were conducted while changing the configuration of external electric blinds developed for light blocking purposes. Through this, it was verified that an additional sound insulation performance of 6 dB can be obtained by installing an external electric blind compared to the reduction performance of general windows.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.196-199
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• 2001

차량 실내소음의 주요 음원은 엔진과 그 주변부에 있다. 엔진에서 발생되는 소음을 차단하여 차실내 소음수준을 개선하기 위하여 엔진룸과 차실과 경계면을 이루고 있는 대시(dash)부의 차음성능이 중요하다. 특히, 음질을 결정하는 주파수 대역인 250Hz 이상의 소음을 제어하기 위하여 다양한 대시 판넬 뿐만 아니라 대시 판넬 전후에 다층구조의 차음재를 부착한다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.288-290
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• 2010

국산자동차의 품질이 비약적으로 발전하였으나, 주행시나 정차시의 정숙성은 세계최고의 자동차에 비해서는 여전히 취약한 실정이며, 특히 자동차 트렁크에서 발생한 소음과 자동차 하체에서 발생한 소음이 트렁크를 타고 내부에 전달되는 문제가 발생되어 그 해결책이 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 흡 차음이 높은 자동차 트렁크 매트를 개발하는데 목적이 있다. 연구방법으로는 공동연구기업에서 제공한 완제품 형식의 자동차 트렁크 시트와 성형하기 전에 플라스틱판(Board)과 부직포를 이용하여 트렁크 매트의 흡음 및 차음성능을 테스트하였으며, 부직포와 시트의 면밀도를 증가시켜 흡음률과 투과손실의 변화를 살펴보았다. 흡 차음 성능이 높은 자동차트렁크 매트를 개발하기 위하여 부직포와 시트 사이에 다공층을 형성하는 설계를 통하여 매트를 제작하였으며, 개발된 매트의 흡/차음성의 변화를 살펴본 결과 흡음률과 차음도가 기존 제품보다 우수한 것을 확인하였다.

• Composites Research
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.15-22
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• 2004

Acoustic load generated by rocket propulsion system is one of major dynamic loads during lift-off phase so that it causes the structural failure and electronic malfunction of payloads. Acoustic loads can be greatly reduced by an appropriate acoustical design of nose faring structures. This paper deals with the acoustical design of the nose fairing structure for launch vehicle. It is well known that a honeycomb sandwich structure is a poor sound insulator because of its high specific stiffness. In this paper, the sound transmission characteristics of four kinds of honeycomb structures for noise fairing were investigated by means of numerical and experimental ways. In order to estimate transmission loss, infinite plate theory by Moore and Lyon and statistical energy analysis (SEA) method were used. The predicted results showed a good agreement with measured ones. These enabled us to determine a proper core material for nose fairing, which shows good sound insulation performance per weight.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.948-955
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• 2017

Currently, porous materials (e.g., mineral wool) are the core materials used in offshore plant panels, but in spite of their superb acoustic performance, these items must be replaced for environmental reasons. A honeycomb structure is widely used throughout the industry because of its high strength-to-weight ratio. However, research in terms of noise and vibration is minimal. An acoustic study should be conducted by taking advantage of honeycomb structures to replace porous materials. In this study, a simulation was performed assuming that a honeycomb panel is a superposition of symmetric mode and antisymmetric mode. Reliability was verified by comparing a simulation results based on a theory with a experimental results, and the possibility of the panel as a core material was evaluated by studying the sound insulation characteristics of a honeycomb. As the panel thickness increased, the coincidence frequency shifted to low frequency. As the angle between horizontal line and oblique wall and cell-size decreases, the sound insulation performance is improved. And as the cell-wall thickness increased, the sound insulation performance improved.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.5-17
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• 1990

This study aims to establish the appropriate class and standards of sound insulation performance, which are suitable for domestic conditions. For, these purpose, field surveys were conducted, correlationship between subjective response and impact sound insulation performance and then, the applicability of ISO and JIS evaluation method was reviewed. As a result, the JISs method is more advisable than the ISO to evaluate Impact sound insulation performance of domestic apartment house and it is desirable to use both light and heavy weight source (tapping machine, tire) as standard impact sources. And, whether including 63Hz bandwidth or not, the difference was recognized very small in calculating impact sound insulation index of JIS A 1419.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.476-480
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• 2010

In the corrugated steel panels used for railway vehicles, sound insulation performance is significantly deteriorated by local resonance effect. In this study, as a countermeasure, polyurethane foam is filled in the corrugated steel panel and glass wool layer is inserted in the layered floor panel, and then improvement effect of the sound insulation performance is experimentally estimated. Based on ASTM E2249-02, intensity transmission loss is measured and estimated on the corrugated panel and floor structure. The aim of the study is to identify how the foam filling and inserting glass wool layer improve the sound insulation performance of the train body structure in aspect of the weight increment.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.123-130
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• 2016

Unitex is widely used for the floor structure of urban railway vehicles because it shows good structural safety and heat insulation, has long life, and lowers the cost owing to easy installation. However, in spite of these merits, Unitex has a limit to the sound insulation performance, which is very important in vehicle structure. It shows a sound transmission loss considerably lower than the mass law value, which indicates the sound insulation performance per unit weight. Recently, railway vehicle manufacturers and Unitex supplier have tried to improve the sound insulation performance of Unitex, but meaningful results have not been achieved yet. Through the industry-university collaborative research, we propose structural improvement methods to increase the sound transmission loss by more than 5dB and we then verify the effect by performing experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.591-592
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• 2008