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Chapter 12
Sound power – acoustic environment requirements
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Norsonic Nor118
User Guide
in which,
a
is the mean sound absorption coefficient, given for A-
weighted quantities in the table a few pages ahead.
S
V
is the total area of the boundary surfaces of the test
room (walls, ceiling and floor), in m
2
.
Using reverberation time instead
e classic definition of absorption area is the well-known
Sabine’s formula:
A = 0.163 VT
in which,
V is the volume of the room
T is the reverberation time of the room.
If your Nor118 is equipped with the optional extension
, you may use this
to calculate the absorption as follows:
K
2A
= 10log[1 + 4S/A] [dB]
K
2A
= 10log[1 + 4(S×T)/(0.163×V)] [dB]
based on an actual reverberation time measurement.
Test room qualification requirements
For the measurement surface in a test room to be satisfac-
tory for measurements in accordance with the require-
ments of , the ratio of the sound absorption area
A
to the area
S
of the measurement surface shall be equal
to or greater than 1, that is A/S
≥
1. e larger the ratio
A/S
is, the better.
If you cannot meet this requirement, a new measure-
ment surface shall be chosen. is surface shall have
a smaller total area, but shall still lie outside the near
field.
Alternatively you may improve the
A/S
by adding sound-
absorbing materials to the test room.
If this does not help, the test room cannot be used for
measurements!
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