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To ensure that building regulations are satisfied, the sound pressure level due to machinery has to be predicted at the design stage of a new building.
With the increasing popularity of multistory timber dwellings, prediction becomes an important issue for designers and consultants. At present previous project experience is often used when considering the design of wall and floor constructions and the mounting positions for machinery.
Simple tools to calculate the sound pressure levels in rooms based on machinery data and construction details are not currently available.
The approach involves two stages: firstly the description of the source and secondly the prediction of vibration transmission across the building and sound radiation into the rooms.
In this paper a simple empirical model is proposed for the second stage. This approach is based on measured transmission functions that are defined as the average sound pressure level in a receiving room relative to the injected structure-borne sound power.
This is a logical extension of approaches to characterize structure-borne sound sources that also use a power based descriptor (e.g. prEN15657:2016-02: Acoustic properties of building elements and of buildings - Laboratory measurement of structure-borne sound from building service equipment for all installation conditions) and provides a simple method to estimate the sound pressure level in a room.
Wooden building systems, including cross-laminated timber elements, are becoming more common. The last few years have seen new developments and documentation of innovative types of cross-laminated timber floor assemblies. Regarding impact sound associated to walking persons, running or jumping children, such floor assemblies can be regarded as a weak part. So far, there are no reliable standardized calculation models available, for prediction of impact sound in the entire frequency range. Therefore the design is always based upon previous experiences and available measurements. This article presents the results of a number of well controlled sound insulation measurements of cross-laminated timber/massive wood floor constructions conducted in laboratories. The collection of data and results analysis highlight some basic phenomena. For instance, how structural differences related to the grouping of the constructions change the frequency distribution of the impact sound level and the single number quantities. Another significant result is the influence of the dynamic stiffness of the resilient interlayer of floating floor systems and the mass per unit area of the floors. Based on this analysis, the aim is to identify similarities and carry out simplifications. The data will be further processed and used in the development of prediction models and optimization process of cross-laminated timber floor assemblies.