Psychoacoustical characteristics of impact ball sounds on concrete floors

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 707-717

  Lee, Pyoung Jik ^a   Kim, Jae Ho ^a   Jeon, Jin Yong ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APARTMENT BUILDINGS; AUDITORY SENSATION; CALCULATION PROCEDURE; CONCRETE FLOOR; DESCRIPTORS; FLOOR-IMPACT SOUND; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC; GOOD CORRELATIONS; IMPACT SOUND; PAIRED COMPARISON; REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SOUND QUALITY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; APARTMENT HOUSES; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FLOORS; MACHINE TOOLS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEMANTICS;

SPHERES;

EID: 68149119944     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918199     Document Type: Article

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