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Architectural Engineering

 


AE 309 - Architectural Acoustics (3 credits)

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Description

Acoustical design for good hearing conditions and noise control; construction details, materials, acoustical properties of room shapes, sound absorption, transmission. Course includes practicums.
Prerequisite(s)

Prerequisite: AE 221, AE 222, PHYS 213

Course Objectives

Learn the basic principles of acoustics, the effects that rooms have on acoustics, and basic principles of noise control in buildings .

Topics
  1. Propagation of waves
  2. Magnitude of sound
  3. Logarithms
  4. Frequency bands
  5. Hearing
  6. Echoes
  7. Sound measurements
  8. Noise ratings
  9. Hearing loss
  10. Speech intelligibility
  11. Room acoustics
  12. Absorption
  13. Acoustics of performance halls
  14. Open plan office spaces
  15. Recording studios
  16. Home theater
  17. Noise control
  18. Airborne sources
  19. Structureborne sources
  20. Spreading losses
  21. Direct and reverberant fields in room
  22. Transmission loss (TL)
  23. TL of composite walls
  24. Method of measuring TL, relation of TL and noise reduction
  25. Sound of Transmission Class
  26. Design guidelines for controlling TL of partitions
  27. Impact insulation
  28. Vibration isolation
Class/Lab Schedule

2 classes/week, 50 minutes/class; 1 practicum/week, 2 hours/practicum


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