The Identification of Flanking Paths in Buildings

摘要

In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the need to regulate noise control in terms of acoustic isolation rather than the sound transmission loss of individual elements. If a partition, whose attenuation characteristics seem satisfactory, does not give adequate sound isolation it is likely that flanking paths are making a significant contribution to the overall transmission of sound. To improve the sound isolation in such cases, the flanking paths must be located. In this paper methods of identifying flanking transmission paths are evaluated.