Week - 1 |
Basic information about sound, lot of noise, noise control issues in architecture |
Week - 2 |
An overview of the concepts of sound and noise. The effects of noise (physiological, psychological and performance effects) |
Week - 3 |
Sources of noise. Classification of outside and inside noise sources affected the building |
Week - 4 |
The basic principles of noise control. Overview of environmental noise control. Examples of planning for noise control. |
Week - 5 |
Noise control of an overview of the national and international standards and regulations. Acceptable noise levels inside and outside of the building |
Week - 6 |
Physical events occurred by sound. Air-borned and structure-borned sounds |
Week - 7 |
Sound propagation. Distinctions between outdoors and indoors propagation. |
Week - 8 |
The sound source types. Decreases with distance from the source. |
Week - 9 |
Sound reflection. Relationship between reflection and noise control. Sound absorption. Relationship between absorption and noise control. |
Week - 10 |
Accounts for the calculation of the effectiveness of the control of noise absorbing materials |
Week - 11 |
Paper presentation on research into sound absorbing materials. |
Week - 12 |
Sound transmission and noise control. Calculation methods. Studies of acoustical comfort on noise control in the buildings. |
Week - 13 |
Paper presentation on the noise assessment of existing buildings |
Week - 14 |
Building acoustics computer programs and sample applications. |