Acoustic approach for building air permeability estimation

Building and Environment

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-27

  Iordache, Vlad ^a   Catalina, Tiberiu ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

Airborne noise; Experimental measurements; Facade transfer; Permeability law

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ACOUSTIC METHOD; AIR CHANGE RATES; AIR FLOW; AIR INFILTRATION; AIR PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT; AIR-BORNE NOISE; AIRTIGHTNESS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FAST TOOL; HVAC DESIGNS; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; NOISE TRANSFER; PERMEABILITY ESTIMATION; PREDICTION MODEL; SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS; TRANSFER PHENOMENON;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AIR; AIR PERMEABILITY; BUILDINGS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION;

ESTIMATION;

AIR PERMEABILITY; AIRFLOW; BUILDING; INFILTRATION; LEAKAGE; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 84860647389     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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