Analysis of Sabine and Eyring equations and their application to concert hall audience and chair absorption

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1399-1410

  Beranek, Leo L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION;

ARCHITECTURAL DATA; EYRING ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; EYRING EQUATIONS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHAIR; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33748570506     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2221392     Document Type: Article

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