Applied Acoustics Course - A.Y. 2022/2023

Calendar with link to presentations, audio-video recordings, notes and final results of in-class tests

 

 

N.

Date

Time

Topic

Presentations

Old Recordings

New Recordings

Notes

0

19/09/2022

08:30-10:30

Course introduction, program, web page, methods - COVID rules

HTML

1

19/09/2022

09:30-10:30

Nature of sound, fundamental physical quantities

PPT

DOC

2

20/09/2022

08:30-09:30

Energy & Sound, scale of decibels

PPT

DOC

3

20/09/2022

09:30-10:30

Human auditory system, loudness evaluation, weighting curves

PPT DOC

4

27/09/2022

08:30-09:30

The Sound Level Meter, equivalent level, calibration, time history with different time constants (slow, fast, etc.)

PPT

5

27/09/2022

09:30-10:30

Sum and subtraction of values in dB, examples of dB summation, exercises with dBs

PPT

DOC

E-1

03/10/2022

08:30-09:30

Experimental Measurements #1 (Sound Level Meter, Calibrator, Spectrum Analyzer)

 

6

03/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Spectral Analysis, FFT, octave bands, Bark bands

PPT DOC

T-1

04/10/2022

08:30-10:30

First Intermediate Test - RESULTS

 

7

10/10/2022

08:30-09:30

Free Field sound propagation, point sources, spherical divergence, directivity

PPT DOC

8

10/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Linear sources, cylindrical divergence, excess attenuation, Noise screens, Maekawa formulas, examples

PPT DOC

9

11/10/2022

08:30-09:30

Indoor sound propagation, semi-reverberant field, critical distance

PPT DOC

10

11/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Reverberation time, definition and Sabine's formula

PPT DOC

11

17/10/2022

08:30-09:30

Environmental correction factor K2, sound propagation inside not-Sabinian rooms.

PPT DOC

12

17/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Digital sampling of sound, digital filters, FFT, convolution in time and frequency domain

PPT DOC

13

18/10/2022

08:30-09:30

Measurement of impulse response: impulsive sources, microphones

PPT   DOC

14

18/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Measurement of impulse response: loudspeakers, MLS and ESS methods

PPT DOC

T-2

24/10/2022

08:30-10:30

Second Intermediate Test - RESULTS

 

15

25/10/2022

08:30-09:30

ISO3382 standard, acoustical parameters: T20, T30, EDT, Clarity, Definition, Center Time, IACC, Jlf, G

PPT DOC

16

25/10/2022

09:30-10:30

Speech Transmission Index: measurement and calculation

PPT DOC

E-2

07/11/2022

08:30-10:30

Experimental Measurements #2
(Room Impulse Response, Acoustical Parameters, STI)

   

17

08/11/2022

08:30-09:30

Sound absorbing materials, typical products. Example of measurement of Alpha Sabine according to ISO 354 (reverberant room)

PPT

DOC

18

08/11/2022

09:30-10:30

Sound insulating materials, typical products. Frequency dependence of the Sound Reduction Index R, the Mass Law, resonances and coincidence.

PPT DOC

T-3

14/11/2022

08:30-10:30

Third Intermediate Test - RESULTS

 

19

15/11/2022

08:30-09:30

Italian law about building acoustics (DPCM 5/12/1997), experimental assessment of compliance

PPT DOC

20

15/11/2022

09:30-10:30

Italian law about environmental noise (L. 447/1995), acoustical zoning, the new EC standards based on Lden

PPT DOC

21

21/11/2022

08:30-09:30

The Single Event Level (SEL) and its usage for evaluation of transportation noise

PPT DOC

22

21/11/2022

09:30-10:30

Measurement of the absorption coefficient: reverberant room, standing wave tube, sound intensity method, impulsive method

PPT DOC

23

22/11/2022

08:30-09:30

Examples and exercises regarding environmental noise

24

22/11/2022

09:30-10:30

Examples and exercises regarding noise at the workplace

T-4

28/11/2022

08:30-10:30

Fourth Intermediate Test - RESULTS

 

25

29/11/2022

08:30-09:30

Digital Sound Processing, FIR and IIR filters, FFT, aliasing, windows, spectrogram

PPT DOC

26

29/11/2022

09:30-10:30

Computation of FIR coefficients for inverse filters, the Kirkeby inversion, Auralization by convolution

PPT DOC

27

05/12/2022

08:30-09:30

Techniques employed for sound recording and reproduction, mono, stereo, multichannel, 3D, the Soundfield microphone, Ambisonics

PPT DOC

28

05/12/2022

09:30-10:30

Wave Field Synthesis (WFS), loudspeaker arrays, the Casa del Suono lab in Parma

PPT DOC

29

06/12/2022

08:30-09:30

Microphone Arrays, Acoustic Camera, Colour Mapping

PPT AVI DOC

E-3

06/12/2022

09:30-10:30

Experimental Measurements #3 (Microphone arrays)

   

30

12/12/2022

08:30-09:30

Simulation of sound propagation  outdoors employing the DISIA/CITYMAP software package

PPT DOC

31

12/12/2022

09:30-10:30

Simulation of sound propagation indoors employing the RAMSETE/AURORA software package

PPT

DOC

32

13/12/2022

08:30-09:30

Exam exercises part I

 

33

13/12/2022

09:30-10:30

Exam exercises part II

 

T-5

19/12/2022

09:30-12:30

Fifth Intermediate Test - RESULTS

   

Total: 48h = 6 CFU


This spreadsheet contains the weighted score for the whole set of 5 in-class tests, scaled to 30.

Who reached 18/30 or above can do the oral exam directly. Instead who did not reach 18/30 need to pass the written test the day of the oral exam.

In any case all students can try to improve the score obtained with the in-class tests by performing the written exam test. The better of the two scores will be taken into account.


Copyright (C) Angelo Farina - reproduction prohibited without permission.
Last revised: 19/12/2022