Controlling air-borne and structure-borne sound in buildings

38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages 4748-4762

  Quirt, J David ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; COMPLETE SYSTEM; COMPREHENSIVE PREDICTION; ENGINEERING PRACTICES; IN-BUILDINGS; MEASUREMENT-BASED; PREDICTION TOOLS; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STANDARDIZED MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURE BORNE SOUND;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; EXHIBITIONS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84870040169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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