Wooden windows: Sound insulation evaluation by means of artificial neural networks

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 740-745

  Buratti, Cinzia ^a   Barelli, Linda ^a   Moretti, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Experimental data; Sound insulation prediction; Wooden windows

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; DATA SETS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FEED-FORWARD; INPUT PARAMETER; INSULATION EVALUATION; MAIN PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; NETWORK INPUTS; NEW PRODUCT; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TEST CAMPAIGN; TRAINING DATA SETS;

ACOUSTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SOUND INSULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WINDOWS;

EID: 84872160615     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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