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1 Introduction
In the everyday life, people are continuously
inserted in living and working closed environment,
which can be acoustically satisfactory or
unsatisfactory. Thus, the acousticians are faced
mainly with a two-fold problem: on one hand they
have to find and to apply the relations between the
structural features of a room such as shape,
materials and so on with the sound field which
will occur in it, and on the other hand they have to
take into consideration, as far as possible, the
interrelations between the objective and measurable
sound field parameters and the specific subjective
hearing impressions effected by them. This shows
that room acoustics is quite different from many
other technical disciplines, since the success or
failure of an acoustical design has finally to be
decided by the collective judgment of all
consumers, i.e. by some sort of average, taken
over the comments of individuals with widely
varying intellectual, educational and aesthetic
backgrounds (unbias).
The prediction of acoustical parameters for the
purposes of architectural acoustics is a task currently
carried out almost exclusively using computer
programs. These give detailed and reliable results
but require a three-dimensional (3D) model of the
room in question. However, researchers and
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Acknowledgements
We acknowledge the help from people participating
to the measurement campaign and software work,
mainly P. Calicchio, A. Contieri and A. Mancino,
and S. DAmbrosio, whose contribution has been
extended also to very helpful discussions.
References:
[1] J. Quartieri, S. DAmbrosio, C. Guarnaccia, G.
Iannone, Experiments in Room Acoustics:
Modelling of a Church Sound Field and
Reverberation Time Measurements, WSEAS
Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 3,
Vol.5, pp. 126-135 (2009), ISSN: 1799-5022.
[2] ISO 3382:1997, Acoustics Measurement of
the reverberation time of rooms with reference
to other acoustic parameters, (1997).
[3] Farrell R.J., Booth J.M., Design Handbook for
Imagery Interpretation Equipment, pp 2-84
D180-19063-1, Boeing Aerospace Co, 1975.
[4] H. Kuttruff, Room Acoustics, 4rd ed. E&FN
Spon, London, 2000.
[5] Noxon A.M., Understanding Church Acoustics,
Acoustic Science Corporation, 2001.
[6] Schroeder M.R., New Method of Measuring
Reverberation Time, Journal of the Acoustical
Society of America, 1965, pp. 409-412.
[7] F. Alton Everest, The Master Handbook of
Acoustics, TAB books, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
[8] Quartieri J., Guarnaccia C., DAmbrosio S.,
Iannone G., Room Acoustics Experimental
Study: Characterization of the Sound Quality in
a New Built Church, Proceedings of the 10th Int.
Conf. on Acoustics & Music: Theory &
Applications (AMTA '09), Prague (Rep.Ceca),
23-25 March 2009, pp 108-115.
6 Conclusions
The result of an experimental activity in
architectural acoustics has been reported in this
paper. This work has been conduced first with the
Reverberation Time measurements in the studied
hall and then with the simulation of the church in a
software framework. The RT has been measured
following the procedure described in the ISO 3382
Standard [2], with instruments that fulfil the
Standard requirements. A quite complete mapping
of the hall has been obtained, since the position of
the receiver has been changed several times during
the experimental campaign.
Thus, the measurement results have been
compared with the simulation data obtained for RT,
which, after the correction of some default
absorption coefficients, are in quite good agreement
with the experimental values. Moreover, the
software aided the operators also in a better
understanding of the opportunity of reverberation
reduction, thanks to the possibility to simulate the
insertion of new architectural elements, able to
improve the absorption, especially of late
reflections. The results showed that it is not
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