Edited by: Barry Gibbs, John Goodchild, Carl Hopkins and David Oldham
Publication date: May 2010 • ISBN 978-1-907132-14-8 • vi + 419pp
• £69
This book contains a collection of papers on room acoustics and environmental noise. Room acoustics is split into four sections: auditorium acoustics, acoustics of religious buildings, acoustics in schools, and absorption, diffusion and reverberation time; five papers on the technically related topic of environmental noise complete the book. The range of issues covered by the book cannot be exhaustive, but the editors believe that current concerns of researchers and practitioners are well addressed. The book includes papers by distinguished figures such as Leo Beranek, R. J. Orlowski, Fergus Fricke and Murray Hodgson, among others.
Although topicality has been considered in selecting these papers for publication in book form, having originally been published in the journal Building Acoustics, the emphasis has been on quality and importance. Papers were selected because of their rigor, citation history and contribution to the science and practice of acoustics. In a convenient form, this book constitutes a significant corpus of knowledge on room acoustics and environmental noise and thus will be of interest to architects and civil engineers, as well as to academic researchers in these fields. The editors are members of the Acoustics Research Group at the University of Liverpool.
Preface
Auditorium Acoustics
The Acoustical Design of Concert Halls
Leo L. Beranek
Developments in the Acoustic Design of Concert Halls from the
Royal Festival Hall, London, to the Segerstrom Hall, California
RJ. Orlowski
A Preliminary Investigation of the Perceived Smallest Sound
Duration Change in a Room
D.-U. Jeong and F.R. Fricke
Acoustical Design and Measurement of a Circular Hall for Improved
Spatial Factors at Each Seat
Akio Takatsu, Hiroyuki Sakai, and Yoichi Ando
Concert Hall Acoustic Design: An Alternative Approach
Fergus Fricke
Acoustical Demands for the Conductor’s Location
Jürgen Meyer
Religious Buildings
Relationships between Subjective and Objective Acoustical Measures
in Churches
Antonio. P.O. Carvalho, Antonio E.J. Morgado and Luis Henrique
Churches as Auditoria: Analysis of Acoustical Parameters for
a Better Understanding of Sound Quality
A.Magrini and P. Ricciardi
Analysis of Contribution of Acoustic Resonators Found in Serbian
Orthodox Churches
Miomir Mijic, Dragana Sumarac-Pavlovic
Acoustics in Schools
The Effects of Noise on Children at School: A Review
Bridget M Shield and Julie E Dockrell
Empirical Prediction of Speech Levels and Reverberation in Classrooms
Murray Hodgson
Optimum Reverberation for Speech Intelligibility for Normal
and Hearing-Impaired Listeners in Realistic Classrooms Using Auralization
Wonyoung Yang and Murray Hodgson
Speech Intelligibility in Classrooms: Specific Acoustical Needs
for Primary School Children
James A. T. Whitlock and George Dodd
Absorption, Diffusion and Reverberation Time
Experimental Approach to the Effect of Diffusers on the Sound
Attenuation in Long Enclosures
Jian Kang
Determination of Acoustical Impedance of Absorbing Surfaces
by Two-microphone Transfer Function Techniques: Measurement In-situ
D.C. Waddington and R.J. Orlowski
The Prediction of Reverberation Time Using Optimal Neural Networks
Joseph Nannariello and Fergus Fricke
The Acoustic Properties of Expanded Clay Granulates
F. Asdrubali and K. V. Horoshenkov
Coupled Volumes: Aperture Size and the Double-Sloped Decay of
Concert Halls
M. Ermann
Environmental Noise
The Mathematical Modelling of the Performance of Noise Barriers
D. C. Hothersall
Standard Calculation of Outdoor Noise Propagation – Errors Due to Propagation
Effect
Y.W. Lam
Jagged Edge Noise Barriers
Penelope Menounou and Ilene J. Busch-Vishniac
Computer Modelling of Urban Noise Propagation
M.R.Ismail and D.J.Oldham
The prediction of noise transmission through single and double skin profiled
metal cladding systems
Y.W. Lam, R.M. Windle