Use of the standard rubber ball as an impact source with heavyweight concrete floors

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 167-178

  Jeon, Jin Yong ^a   Lee, Pyoung Jik ^a   Sato, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE FLOOR; FLOOR COVERING; FLOOR-IMPACT SOUND; HUMAN IMPACT; IMPACT PRESSURES; IMPACT SOUND; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUBBER BALLS; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SOUND LEVEL; SOUND QUALITY; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; TAPPING MACHINE; TYPE STRUCTURES; WEIGHT IMPACT;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONCRETE BLOCKS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; CONCRETE SLABS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SPHERES; STANDARDS;

FLOORS;

RUBBER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BUILDING; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MACHINE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; STANDARD; WEIGHT;

EID: 68149142354     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3148193     Document Type: Article

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