BDC40803 Date: 5 Feb’ 17

ASSIGNMENT 1
Submission Date: 10 April 2017

1. By referring to Figure 1, describe hoe the A-weighing curve is derived

(7 marks)
2. An employee is exposed to the following levels of noise during his working day
Activity Duration SPL
sawing 4 hours 96 dB(A)
grinding 2 hours 95 dB(A)
drilling 30 min 108 dB(A)
turning 3.5 hours 87 dB(A)

(i) Calculate the total sound pressure level, SPL

(ii) Determine his equivalent continuous noise level, Leq
(iii) Estimates his equivalent continues daily noise level 8 hours, Lev
(10 marks)

3. A motor car was found to produce the following noise level

Octave band (Hz) Level (dB)
63 95
125 84
250 80
500 68
1000 65
2000 61
4000 60
8000 60
Calculate the noise level in dB (liner) and dB(A). Use Figure 1
(8 marks)

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4. Define the directivity and assign values to if for a source located

(i) near the center of a room
(ii) near the center of the wall
(iii) at the center of edge formed by two adjacent surfaces and
(iv) at the center formed by three adjacent surfaces
(8 marks)
5. Use the equation in 2 (i) to study the decay of sound in a hard-wall; room, and in a soft walled
room with little reflection

Take SPL of source = 95 dB, source directivity, Q = 2, α = 0.3 hard, and α = 0.9 soft, total
surface area of the room, S = 500 m2, let r = 1.5 m and r = 8 m. Use Figure 2.
(7 marks)

6. A foreman’s office is located inside a workshop of 2500m3 volumes with reverberation time of 2
second. The workshop reverberant sound pressure level was 74 dB. The office is to be located
with demountable metal construction with an average transmission loss 0f 37 dB. The office
has room dimension of 5 m length x 3 m width x 2 m height. The 5 m length is the common
part wall of the workshop. The average room absorption coefficient α is 0.1.
(i) Calculate the room constant
(ii) Determine a partition transmission area
(iii) Calculate the transmitted noise SPL in receiving room
(9 marks)

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Figure 1

Figure 2

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ASSIGNMENT 1

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QUESTION 6

TOTAL MARKS

PERCENTAGE (5%)

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