Development of an optimised, standard-compliant procedure to calculate sound transmission loss: Numerical measurements

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1069-1085

  Papadopoulos, Christos I ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Finite Element Analysis; Optimisation; Standard; Transmission Loss

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SOUND INSULATING MATERIALS;

DYNAMIC COUPLING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0042130103     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(03)00066-5     Document Type: Article

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