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RESONANCE
Is what happens to a body when another vibrating
VELOCITY OF PROPAGATION body vibrates and initiates. The other body to vibrate in
Sound travels at different velocities, depending upon harmony with it
the medium. On air, at sea level, sound velocity is 344 Resonance can be useful to reinforce sounds at
m/sec or 1130 fps, slow compared to light at 186,000 some specific frequencies
miles per second. Sound travels much faster in liquids and This happens only however, if the resonating body
solids than it does on air. or resonator has a dimension which is a multiple of the
wavelength of the sound wave from the originating body
SOUND PROPAGATION VELOCITY IN VARIOUS MEDIA
VELOCITY
medium meter per second feet per second
Air 344 1130
Water 1410 4625
Wood 3300 10,825
Brick 3600 11,800
Concrete 3700 12,100
Steel 4900 16,000
Glass 5000 16,400
Aluminum 5800 19,000
At 22ºC At 72ºF
Low frequencies have more resonance than the high
SPEED OF SOUND
frequencies because low frequencies have longer
As sound travels much slower than the speed of
wavelengths and therefore more multipliers to the
light, the resulting defects in many rooms are echoes and
dimensions of the room than high frequencies
reverberations
Yet, there are sounds that require less resonance to
When the reflected sound, which reaches an
give presence to the sounds
observer, is delayed more than about 0.058 seconds relative
to the direct sounds, they are distinguished as echoes.
Reverberation consist of successive reflections of
sounds in a room, and since sound travels only about 1130
SOUND ABSORPTION frequency, meaning it can only absorb some sounds
The sound phenomenon that happens to sound When the sound wave is transformed into heat
when it strikes a surface is that the sound is absorbed by the energy, the sound will no longer be reflected. The sound
surface. Actually, what really happens is, when sound wave heard is only the direct sound
strikes an absorbent surface, the sound waves through This sound absorption efficiency of a material is
friction on the pores of the surface are transformed into measured in terms of units known as sobius, in which one
heat energy sabin means perfect absorption and 0 means no absorption
Number 1 absorption
- open window or door
THE TYPES OF ABSORBENT SURFACES ARE: - a line of pillows
soft and porous surfaces - two closets facing each other and
- such as corkboard, foam or Styrofoam or any material sandwiching a wall
which has this property like draperies on the walls and
carpets on the floor DECIBEL
- measurement of the intensity of sound
panel absorber - abbreviated (db)
- consisting of two layers of materials with an airspace 40db
between them. The outer layer, being of porous type and - limit for comfortable hearing
the inner layer of solid background 100-120 db
- can no longer be comfortable, that is painful to the ear
ECHO
- reflected sound
REVERBERATION
- is a series of echoes coming from the same source
REVERBERATION TIME
- is the time in seconds that a reflected sound diminishes for
the case by 60db after the original sound has stopped
- formula
RT = 0.05V
a1s1
where:
cavity resonator V = volume of room in cubic feet
- Consisting of an enclosed body s1 = area of an absorbent surface
of air which is connected by a a1 = coefficient of absorption of a surface
narrow passage with the space - example
containing the sound waves. an auditorium with a volume of 80,800 is to
This type of absorber is be acoustically treated to serve an acceptable
effective only at the resonant reverberation time with or without audience.
The auditorium has been provided with the SOUND FIELDS IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE
following materials such as: When a sound propagated in an enclosed space
materials area in feet coefficient of absorption in reaches a wall or other large (with respect to wavelength)
(s1) absorption sabins (a1) obstruction, part is reflected and part is absorbed.
Wood 6,928 .03 208 The sound at any point in the room is then the
Plaster 7,440 .033 246 combination of direct sound from walls and other
Metal 628 .01 6.3 obstructions.
Glass 408 .025 10.2
Seats 550 .017 93.5 DIFFUSION
504.01 When the reflections are so large that the sound
units in level becomes uniform throughout the room. (no acoustical
sabins shadow).
Most rooms don’t have such a high level of reflection
-computation that a diffuse field is created:
RT = 0.05V 1. near field – near the source
a1s1 2. free field – at a distance
RT = .05(80,800) 3. reverberant field – near the walls
504
= 4040
504
= 8.0 seconds
add 200 auditors at 4.17 each
200 x 4.17 = 834
+ 504
1338
RT = .05(80,800)
1338
= 3.0 seconds
from table: the ideal RT is from 1 to 1.5
seconds
-corrections
1.5 = .05(80,800)
(1338 + x)
1.5(1338 + x) = .05(80,800)
x = 1355.3
TRANSIENT SOUND
- is the term applied to the direct sound which if the
originating body stops, vibrating also stops.
SOUND FIELDS CAN BE RECOGNIZED AS FOLLOWS in an ordered sound, the instantaneous pressure
near field follows a regular pattern
- generally within one wavelength of the lowest in a disordered sound, the peak of acoustic
frequency of sound produced by the source. power occur more or less at random, the periodic
- the maximum wavelength for the male human qualities of ordered sound are lacking.
voice is 3.30mts or 11 ft
THREE CLASSIFICATIONS OF SOUNDS IN A BUILDING
reverberant field 1. noise – unwanted sound
- near large obstructions such as walls 2. music – generally not always made up of ordered sound
- is dominant and approaches a diffused condition 3. speech – consists of both ordered and disordered sound
MUSIC THERAPHY
SOUNDS MAYBE CLASSIFIED AS: Music makes a powerful impact on the senses. Often
1. ordered touching feelings too deep or too difficult to express in
2. disordered words. The approach of music therapy practitioners can be
classified into two:
The response approach 3. Reverberation time should also be reduced to a tolerable
- focuses on the therapeutic power of music level because the reverberations of the previous syllables will
heard from an external source and the body and minds obscure the sound of each syllable.
reaction to such music.
The expression approach
- identifies music’s power to come not only form
its reception but also from its creation.
CLOUDS
- pieces of cloth
hung on the ceiling to
absorb sound not less
than 2 ft in depth; 2 ft
because the wavelength
of low frequency sound
is usually 2 ft
LOUDSPEAKER
- to give natural as much as possible as well as to
make the sound louder
- diffuses low frequency sounds, projects
directionally high frequency sounds
- should be placed one at the left, the other at the
right
Under this condition, the hearing of the natural and the TYPES OF SOUND SYSTEMS WITH RESPECT TO LEVELS OF
loudspeaker merely magnifies the sound SOUND
1. The high-level system the farther from the source the lesser is the intensity
- which consists of a single loudspeaker with a high level of of noise
sound. This is most applicable for rooms with good acoustics 2. molecular absorption of sound by air
2. Low-level system high frequency sounds are absorbed more by air
- consists of several loudspeaker placed at strategic locations than the low frequency sounds
in the room and operating at low volume of sound. This is 3. wind gradient
most useful for rooms with bad acoustic like churches and refers to the differences in the velocity of air in
cathedrals terms of distance from the ground and generally
near the ground is slower than that farther above
If the high level system is used in a room with a flat or level this effects the propagation of sound
floor, it is good practice to place the loudspeaker above the head of
the main speaking and direct it towards the center of the audience
5. any
VIBRATION PRINCIPLE
The more massive the building, the less the vibration
Light frame construction (steel, wood, etc.) can transmit
sound as well as vibration
RESILIENCY PRINCIPLE
A greater resistance to vibration includes a greater damage,
therefore the structure should go with the vibration, like in Frank
Llyod Wright’s Imperial Hotel, it survived the earthquake.