Sound transmission through finite lightweight multilayered structures with thin air layers

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3513-3524

  Dijckmans, A ^a   Vermeir, G ^a   Lauriks, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COUPLING; AIR CAVITY; AIR-GAPS; DOUBLE GLAZINGS; DOUBLE WALL; FREQUENCY REGIONS; INFINITE-LAYER; MODAL SIMULATION; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; NONRESONANT; PLANE WAVE PROPAGATION; RECTANGULAR STRUCTURE; REVERBERANT ROOM; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS; STRUCTURAL DAMPING; THIN AIR; VIBRO-ACOUSTIC BEHAVIORS; VISCOUS EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; DAMPING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; BUILDING MATERIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRICTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; NOISE; PRESSURE; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTICS; AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FRICTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; SOUND; VIBRATION;

EID: 79952182402     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3500698     Document Type: Article

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