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Norsonic Nor140
Instruction Manual
Chapter 23
Sound Power ................................................................................................................ 118
About sound power measurements ................................................................................................118
Rectangular parallelepiped .............................................................................................................119
Hemispherical measurement surface .............................................................................................119
Hemispherical microphone positions .......................................................................................120
Additional microphone positions ..............................................................................................120
Parallelepiped measurement surface .............................................................................................122
Microphone positions ................................................................................................................122
Additional microphone positions ..............................................................................................122
Reducing the number of positions ............................................................................................123
Mic. positions – one reflecting plane .........................................................................................123
More than one reflecting plane .................................................................................................123
Sound power – acoustic environment requirements .......................................................................125
Specific requirements .....................................................................................................................126
The K
2A
factor ..................................................................................................................................126
Approximate method .......................................................................................................................126
Using reverberation time instead ....................................................................................................126
Test room qualification requirements .............................................................................................127
Measuring the sound power ............................................................................................................127
Making measurements ....................................................................................................................127
Background noise .......................................................................................................................... 130
Measurement surface ..................................................................................................................... 130
Sound power results ........................................................................................................................131
Chapter 24
Building Acoustics ...................................................................................................... 132
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................132
Terms and definitions for airborne sound insulation ................................................................ 134
Terms and definitions for impact sound insulation .................................................................. 135
Survey and engineering methods ............................................................................................ 135
Airborne sound insulation............................................................................................................... 136
General ..................................................................................................................................... 136
Noise excitation ........................................................................................................................ 136
Measurement of sound level .................................................................................................... 136
Measurement of reverberation time ......................................................................................... 136
Calculating the Airborne Sound insulation according to the Survey Method .................................137
Displaying of results ..................................................................................................................137
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