The goal is to interpret and calculate the “niche effect” for the airborne sound transmission through a specimen mounted inside an aperture in the wall between the source and receiving reverberation rooms. The low-frequency sound insulation is known to be worse for the specimen placed at the center than for the specimen mounted at either edge of the aperture. As shown, the aperture with a tested specimen can be simulated at low frequencies as a triple partition where the middle element is the specimen and the role of the edge leaves is played by the air masses entrained at the aperture edges. With a centrally located specimen, such a triple system is symmetric and has two main natural frequencies close together. In this case, the resonant transmission is higher than for the edge arrangement simulated as a double system with one natural frequency. Analogous resonant phenomena are known to reduce the low-frequency transmission loss for symmetric triple windows or solid walls with identical air gaps and lightweight boards on both sides. The theoretical results obtained for the mechanical and acoustical models are in a good agreement with the experimental data.
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April 2006
April 01 2006
Mechanism and calculation of the niche effect in airborne sound transmission
Roman Vinokur
Roman Vinokur
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Vinokur VibroAcoustics
, Woodland Hills, California 91367
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 2211–2219 (2006)
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October 12 2005
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February 02 2006
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Roman Vinokur; Mechanism and calculation of the niche effect in airborne sound transmission. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 April 2006; 119 (4): 2211–2219. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2179656
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