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In recent years, the science and engineering for controlling sound transmission in buildings have shifted from a focus on individual assemblies such as walls or floors, to a focus on performance of the complete system. Standardized procedures for calculating the overall transmission, combined with standardized measurements to characterize sub-assemblies, provide much better prediction of sound transmission between adjacent indoor spaces. The International Standards Organization (ISO) has published a calculation method, ISO 15712-1 that uses laboratory test data for sub-assemblies such as walls and floors as inputs for a detailed procedure to calculate the expected sound transmission between adjacent rooms in a building. This standard works very well for some types of construction, but to use it in a North American context one must overcome two obstacles – incompatibility with the ASTM standards used by our construction industry, and low accuracy of its predictions for lightweight wood or steel frame construction. To bypass limitations of ISO 15712-1, this Guide explains how to merge ASTM and ISO test data in the ISO calculation procedure, and provides recommendations for applying extended measurement and calculation procedures for specific common types of construction. This Guide was developed in a project established by the National Research Council of Canada to support the transition of construction industry practice to using apparent sound transmission class (ASTC) for sound control objectives in the National Building Code of Canada (NBCC). However, the potential range of application goes beyond the minimum requirements of the NBCC – the Guide also facilitates design to provide enhanced sound insulation, and should be generally applicable to construction in both Canada and the USA. This publication contains a limited set of examples for several types of construction, to provide an introduction and overview of the ASTC calculation procedure. Additional examples and measurement data can be found in the companion documents to this Guide, namely NRC Research Reports RR-333 to RR-337. Furthermore, the calculation procedure outlined and illustrated in this Guide is also used by the software web application soundPATHS, which is available for free on the website of the National Research Council of Canada (see the references in Section 7 of this Guide for access details).
Au cours des dernières années, les scientifiques et les ingénieurs ont fait porter leurs efforts en matière d’atténuation de la transmission du son dans les bâtiments davantage sur le rendement du système dans sa totalité que sur les ensembles de construction individuels. Les méthodes normalisées de calcul de la transmission globale, combinées à des mesures normalisées de caractérisation des sous-ensembles, permettent de mieux prédire la transmission du son entre des espaces intérieurs adjacents. L’Organisation internationale de normalisation (ISO) a publié une méthode de calcul, la norme ISO 15712-1, qui utilise des données d’essai en laboratoire pour les sous-ensembles, comme les murs et les planchers, comme données d’entrée en vue d’une méthode détaillée de calcul de la transmission du son prévue entre des pièces adjacentes dans un bâtiment. Cette norme fonctionne très bien pour certains types de construction, mais pour l’utiliser dans un contexte nord-américain, il faut surmonter deux obstacles – l’incompatibilité avec les normes ASTM utilisées par notre industrie de la construction et la faible exactitude de ses prévisions pour la construction à ossature de bois ou d’acier légère. Pour contourner les limites de la norme ISO 15712-1, le présent guide explique comment fusionner les données d’essai de l’ISO et de l’ASTM dans la méthode de calcul de l’ISO, et formule des recommandations relativement à l’application de méthodes élargies de mesure et de calcul pour des types de construction courants. Le présent guide a été élaboré dans le cadre d’un projet mis sur pied par le Conseil national de recherches du Canada afin d’appuyer la transition de la pratique de l’industrie de la construction vers l’utilisation d’un indice de transmission du son apparent (ITSA) satisfaisant aux objectifs de réduction rigoureux du Code national du bâtiment du Canada (CNBC). Toutefois, l’éventail potentiel d’applications va au-delà des exigences minimales du CNBC – le Guide facilite aussi une conception visant à améliorer l’insonorisation et devrait s’appliquer de façon générale à la construction tant au Canada qu’aux États-Unis. La présente publication contient un ensemble limité d’exemples pour plusieurs types de construction, afin de fournir une introduction et un aperçu de la méthode de calcul de l’ITSA. On trouvera d’autres exemples et données de mesure dans les documents d’accompagnement du présent guide, à savoir, les rapports de recherche RR-333 à RR-337 du CNRC. De plus, la méthode de calcul décrite et illustrée dans le présent guide est également utilisée par l’application Web soundPATHS, disponible gratuitement sur le site Web du Conseil national de recherches du Canada (voir les références à la section 7 du présent guide pour les détails d’accès).
This report presents the results of an extensive series of direct sound insulation tests of cold-formed steel-framed walls and floors. The direct airborne sound insulation of 30 walls with cold-formed steel framing was measured in accordance with ASTM E90-09. The walls had steel studs with a depth of 92 mm (3-5/8”) or 152 mm (6”), and with a steel thickness of 1.09 mm (0.043”) or 1.37 mm (0.054”). Other parameters that were investigated included the number of layers and thickness of gypsum board, the cavity insulation, the stud spacing, and the use of resilient channels. The test results for some non-standard wall configurations that were tested for research purposes (e.g. for walls with gypsum board on one side only) are also included in this report. The direct airborne and impact sound insulation of 17 floors with cold-formed steel framing was measured in accordance with ASTM E90-09 and ASTM E492-09, respectively. The floors had steel joists with a depth of 254 mm (10”) or 317 mm (12.5”), and with a steel thickness of 1.37 mm (0.054”). The top surface of the floor/ceiling assemblies was composed of a corrugated steel deck with poured gypsum concrete, while the bottom surface was composed of a gypsum board ceiling on resilient channels. The influence of the joist depth and the number of layers and thickness of the ceiling gypsum board was investigated, as well as the influence of several floor coverings (e.g. laminate or carpet). The report presents the detailed specimen descriptions and specimen properties and the results from the standardized tests according to ASTM E90-09 and ASTM E492-09. Brief analyses of the parameters affecting the sound insulation of the steel-framed assemblies are provided. The tests presented in this report were part of a large research study that also included an investigation into the flanking sound transmission in cold-formed steel-framed buildings. The results of that study are described in the NRC Research Report RR-337, “Apparent Sound Insulation in Cold-Formed Steel-Framed Buildings” [1]. The NRC Research Report RR-337 also includes some of the airborne sound insulation results presented here, albeit without listing the detailed specimen descriptions and specimen properties that are provided in this report.
Methods are considered for the indirect determination of the mobility of structure-borne sound sources. Instead of performing measurements on the source in the free state, the source mobility is obtained from measurements made in-situ. This approach is beneficial if the source is difficult to suspend, or if it contains nonlinear structural elements. Two formulations for an indirect source mobility are derived theoretically. The first requires measurement of velocities at or near to the contact points. The second involves measurement of remote velocities only. Neither of the methods requires excitation at the contacts in the coupled state. Numerical simulations of coupled beams are used to validate the two methods and investigate their accuracy and reliability with respect to typical measurement errors, such as background noise and inaccuracies in sensor positioning. It is found that these can have a significant effect on the methods considered. Several experimental case studies with single-contact and multi-contact sources are performed. The results confirm the validity of the two methods in principle, but highlight their sensitivity to experimental errors. In a representative case study with a fan unit, average errors range between ±5 dB and ±10 dB, with occasional errors of up to 30 dB.
This Report presents the results from experimental studies of airborne sound transmission, together with an explanation of calculation procedures to predict the apparent airborne sound transmission between adjacent spaces in a building whose construction is based on cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels. There are several types of CLT constructions which are commercially available in Canada, but this study only focused on CLT panels that have adhesive between the faces of the timber elements in adjacent layers, but no adhesive bonding the adjacent timber elements within a given layer. There were noticeable gaps (up to 3 mm wide) between some of the timber elements comprising each layer of the CLT assembly. These CLT panels could be called “Face-Laminated CLT Panels” but are simply referred to as CLT panels in this Report. Another form of CLT panels has adhesive between the faces of the timber elements in adjacent layers as well as adhesive to bond the adjacent timber elements within a given layer. These are referred to as “Fully-Bonded CLT Panels” in this Report. Because fully-bonded CLT panels have different properties than face-laminated CLT panels, the sound transmission data and predictions in this Report do not apply to fully-bonded CLT panels.
Vibrating sources, such as building service equipment, are major contributors to noise in buildings. In order to predict and subsequently reduce the sound pressure levels generated by these devices, it is necessary to first predict the total vibrational power injected by them into the supporting building structure. Whilst simplified methods are available for the calculation of the total power through all contacts, it would be beneficial to have more detailed knowledge of the dominant contact powers. For sources on low-mobility building elements, the contact powers are determined by the blocked force, along with the real part of the receiver mobility at each contact. This paper describes a novel inverse method to obtain the blocked forces at each contact. The method employs an instrumented reception plate, which is numerically modelled to allow optimum accelerometer positions to be selected, for any source and any location. The underlying theory and measurement procedure are described, and experimental validations are presented.
This Report presents the results from substantial experimental studies of sound transmission, together with an explanation of calculation procedures to predict the sound transmission between adjacent spaces in a building whose walls and floors have cold-formed steel (CFS) framing. This first edition contains mainly data for loadbearing steel framing formed from sheet steel with thickness from 1.37 mm (16 gauge) to 0.94 mm (20 gauge). Non-loadbearing CFS studs formed from thinner steel (nominally 0.54 mm) are also commonly used but these are not included in the data tables for sound transmission through wall assemblies in this Report.