Is there a systematic disagreement between intensity-based and pressure-based sound transmission loss measurements?

Building Acoustics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-111

  MacHimbarrena, María ^a   Jacobsen, Finn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM CONDITIONS; SOUND REDUCTION INDEX; SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS; SYSTEMATIC DEVIATION; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

EID: 0000130609     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1351010991501301     Document Type: Article

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