Measuring auditorium seat absorption
Davies, WJ, Orlowski, RJ and Lam, YW 1994, 'Measuring auditorium seat absorption' , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96 (2) , pp. 879-888.
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There is a need for a more accurate laboratory measurement method to predict auditorium seat absorption. The traditional method tends to overpredict the absorption of the exposed front and sides of seating blocks. An alternative reverberation chamber method was studied that involves the use of barriers to obtain realistic measurements of front and side absorption. This method was validated by comparing measurements of seats made in a reverberation chamber with in situ absorption data for the same seats, calculated from reverberation time measurements in ten auditoria with and without the seats present. The accuracy of the alternative method was satisfactory in all cases, although a severe lack of diffusion in two of the halls hindered the validation process. It was found that using a frequency-constant edge correction strip to account for side and front absorption could lead to significant errors in auditorium absorption prediction.
|Additional Information:||1 PB503 J ACOUST SOC AMER|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||reverberation chamber measurements; theater chair absorption|
|Themes:||Built and Human Environment|
|Schools:||Colleges and Schools > College of Science & Technology > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Acoustics Research Centre|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Journal of the Acoustical Society of America|
|Publisher:||Acoustical Society of America|
|Depositing User:||Dr W. J. Davies|
|Date Deposited:||16 Jul 2012 14:51|
|Last Modified:||20 Aug 2013 16:00|
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