Development of scattering surfaces for concert halls

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 341-355

  Jeon, Jin Yong ^a   Lee, Sung Chan ^a   Vorländer, Michael ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffuser; Scattering coefficient

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FREQUENCIES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; REVERBERATION; SHRINKAGE;

CONCERT HALLS; DIFFUSERS; SCATTERING COEFFICIENT;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0742320772     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2003.11.001     Document Type: Article

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