Tentative Program for Course ARE-547, term: 171

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Mond. Sept. 18 Presentation, Introduction

Wed. Sept. 20th Lect. 1 Fundamental notions for wave propagation

Mond. Sept. 25th Lect. 2 Various phenomena in wave propagation

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Wed. Sept. 27 Lect. 3 Quantification of sound, dB, spectrum, filtering, adding of sounds
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Mond. Oct. 2 Lect. 4 Sound sources, directivity, sound power and intensity
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Wed. Oct. 4 Lect. 5 Hearing and the human ear, effects of noise on health
Mond. Oct. 9th Lect. 6 Regulation of exposure to noise, noise rating, NR curves, standards

Wed. Oct. 11th Lect. 7 Transportation noise, noisiness, noise barriers Quiz 1

Mond. Oct. 16th Lect. 8 Room Acoustics, room modes, resonances, porous materials

Wed. Oct. 18th Lect. 9 Reverberation and the Reverberation Time, RT HW 1: Hand-out

Mond. Oct. 23rd Lect. 10 Control of RT: architectural design, various sound absorbing devices
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Wed. Oct. 25 Lect. 11 Dos and Donts in Architectural Acoustics

Mond. Oct. 30th Mid-Term Examination

Wed. Nov. 1st Lect. 12 Theoretical and physical models for simulation of sound propagation

Mond. Nov. 6th Lect. 13 ODEON: Software for simulation of sound propagation. TP: Hand-out

Wed. Nov. 8th Lab. Visit: Reverberation, Anechoic & Transmission HW 1: Hand-in

Mond. Nov. 13th Lect. 14 Psychoacoustics: experiments, recommended values of RT

Wed. Nov. 15th Lect. 15 Room acoustical predictors, IACC, ELEF, STI Quiz 2

Mond. Nov. 20th Lect. 16 Basic properties of solid materials, MoE, Poisson factor, friction
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Wed. Nov. 22 Lect. 17 Vibrations in strings, bars and plates

Mond. Nov. 27th Lect. 18 Smart damping materials, Active noise and vibration control

Wed. Nov. 29th Lect. 19 Building acoustics: Mass law, coincidence, critical frequency
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Mond. Dec. 4 Lect. 20 Building acoustics: Sound Transmission and Impact Insulation

Wed. Dec. 6th Lect. 21 Flanking transmission, Duct acoustics: HVAC noise Quiz 3

Mond. Dec. 11th Lect. 22 Building acoustics software: BASTIAN and/or INSUL HW 2: Hand-out

Wed. Dec. 13th Lect. 23 Vibrations: SDOF, MDOF and vibrations in complex structures

Mond. Dec. 18th Lect. 24 Vibrations and vibration/noise isolation of machines

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Wed. Dec. 20 Lect. 25 Effects of vibrations on humans
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Mond. Dec. 25 Lect. 26 Dos and Donts in Building Acoustics HW 2: Hand-in

Wed. Dec. 27th Round-up TP: Hand-in

Tuesd. January 9th Final Examination

HW: Home Work Quiz: 15 min, run at beginning of lecture TP: Term Project