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Chapter 11
About sound power measurements
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Norsonic Nor118
User Guide
Parallelepiped measurement surface
e measurement distance
d
is the perpendicular dis-
tance between the reference box and the measurement
surface. e preferred value of
d
is 1 m and should be at
least 0.15 m.
e value of
d
should be one of the following values
(in metres): 0.15, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2, 4 or 8. Measurement
distances larger than 1 m may be selected for large sources.
ere are environmental requirements that should be satis-
fied for the value of
d
selected.
In brief, the environmental requirements state that the
reflecting plane must not be of such a material or in such
a condition that it radiates any appreciable sound energy
due to vibration. If the measurements are made outdoors
over grass- or snow-covered ground, the measurement
distance shall not exceed 1 metre. e general requirement
is that the sound absorption coefficient of the reflecting
plane shall be less than 0.1 over the frequency range of
interest. Also no reflecting objects that are not part of the
source under test shall be located inside the measurement
surface.
Microphone positions
e microphone positions lie on the measurement surface,
a hypothetical surface of area
S
enveloping the source
whose sides are parallel to the sides of the reference box
and spaced out a distance d (measurement distance) from
the box.
e microphone positions on the parallelepiped meas-
urement surface are shown on the following pages. e
area
S
of the measurement surface according to the micro-
phone position figures is given by the formula:
S = 4(ab + bc + ca)
where
a = 0.5l
1
+ d,
b = 0.5l
2
+ d
and
c = 0.5l
3
+ d
and
l
1
, l
2
and
l
3
are the length, width and the height of
the reference box.
If a source is installed adjacent to more than one reflect-
ing plane, reference shall be made to the corresponding
figures.
Additional microphone positions
Sound pressure level measurements are required at
additional microphone positions on the parallelepiped
measurement surface if
a
the range of sound pressure level values measured at the
key microphone positions (i.e. the difference in decibels
between the highest and lowest sound pressure levels)
exceeds twice the number of key measurement points,
or
b
the source radiates noise with a high directivity, or
c
the noise from a large source is radiated only from a
small portion of the source, e.g. the openings of an
otherwise closed machine.
Microphone array on the parallelepiped – valid for larger
machines.
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