Beam-tracing model for predicting sound fields in rooms with multilayer bounding surfaces

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2321-2331

  Wareing, Andrew ^a,b   Hodgson, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BEAM-TRACING MODELS; MULTILAYER BOUNDING SURFACES; MULTILAYER SURFACES;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM TRACING MODEL; CALCULATION; POROSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 26844439861     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2011152     Document Type: Article

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