Acoustic performance of balconies having inhomogeneous ceiling surfaces on a roadside building facade

Building and Environment

Volumn 93, Issue P2, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Wang, Xu ^a   Mao, Dongxing ^a   Yu, Wuzhou ^a   Jiang, Zaixiu ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Balcony; Inhomogeneous impedance surface; Insertion loss

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC NOISE; BUILDINGS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOUSING; INSERTION LOSSES; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROADSIDES; VENTILATION;

ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE; BALCONY; CLOSELY SPACED ARRAYS; IMPEDANCE SURFACE; NATURAL VENTILATION; NOISE SCREENING EFFECTS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; TWO DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

CEILINGS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; BUILDING; ENERGY FLUX; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NOISE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL COMPONENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VENTILATION;

EID: 84938059648     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.06.027     Document Type: Article

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