Estimation of environmental noise impacts within architectural spaces.
Public Law 91-596, ''Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,'' Dec. 29, 1970, stimulated interest in modeling the impacts of interior noise on employees, as well as the intelligibility of interior public-address and other speech intra-communication systems. The classical literature on this topic has primarily featured a statistical uniform diffuse-field model. This was pioneered by Leo L. Beranek in the 1950s, based on energy-density formulations at the former Bell Telephone (AT and T) Laboratories in the years from 1930 to 1950. This paper compares the classical prediction approach to the most recent statistical methods. Such models were developed in the late 1970s and included innovations such as consideration of irregularly shaped (e.g., L-shaped) interior room spaces and coupled spaces.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 795839
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/EA/CP-107576; TRN: US200215%%244
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 95th Annual Conference and Exhibition (ACE 2002), Baltimore, MD (US), 06/23/2002--06/27/2002; Other Information: PBD: 3 May 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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