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Basics of Civil Engineering: Module 6 - Sound Proofing

Sound proofing reduces unwanted noise by increasing distance between source and receiver, using barriers to reflect or absorb sound waves, damping structures, and active anti-noise generators. It improves sound within rooms and limits transmission between rooms and outdoors. Acceptable noise levels in buildings include 50-60 dB in offices and 45-50 dB in residential, school, and hospital buildings. Sound insulation between rooms requires at least 30 dB reduction and can be achieved through airborne noise isolation, lining walls and ceilings with sound absorbing materials, heavy and rigid partitions, and double glazing windows.

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Basics of Civil Engineering: Module 6 - Sound Proofing

Sound proofing reduces unwanted noise by increasing distance between source and receiver, using barriers to reflect or absorb sound waves, damping structures, and active anti-noise generators. It improves sound within rooms and limits transmission between rooms and outdoors. Acceptable noise levels in buildings include 50-60 dB in offices and 45-50 dB in residential, school, and hospital buildings. Sound insulation between rooms requires at least 30 dB reduction and can be achieved through airborne noise isolation, lining walls and ceilings with sound absorbing materials, heavy and rigid partitions, and double glazing windows.

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BASICS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

MODULE 6 – SOUND PROOFING


WHAT IS SOUND PROOFING?

• Sound proofing is any means of reducing the sound pressure with respect to a
specified sound source and receptor.
• Basic approaches to reducing sound are -
i. increasing the distance between source and receiver
ii. using noise barriers to reflect or absorb the energy of the sound waves
iii. using damping structures such as sound baffles
iv. using active anti noise sound generators
WHY SOUND PROOFING?

• To improve the sound within a room and reduce sound leakage to/from adjacent rooms
or outdoors. Acoustic quieting and noise control can be used to limit unwanted noise.
• To suppress unwanted indirect sound waves such as reflections that
cause echoes and resonances that cause reverberation.
• To reduce the transmission of unwanted direct sound waves from the source to an
involuntary listener through the use of distance and intervening objects in the sound
path.
ACCEPTABLE NOISE LEVELS INSIDE BUILDINGS

Sl. No Type of building Noise level in db


1. Offices 50 to 60
2. Residential buildings 45 to 55
3. Schools 45 to 50
4. Hospitals 45 to 50
SOUND INSULATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL
ROOMS
• The levels for air-borne or overall sound insulation required between individual
rooms/apartments of a building are given below as specified by IS: 1952-1962
Sl. No Situation Insulation in db
1. Between the living room in one house or flat and the living room and 50
bedroom in another
2. Elsewhere between houses or flats 40
3. Between one room and another in the same house or flat 30
4. Between teaching rooms in a school 40
5. Between one room and another room in an office 30
6. Between one ward and another ward in a hospital
a. Normal wards
b. Extra- quiet-special wards
MEASURES TO REDUCE NOISE AND FOR SOUND
INSULATION
• For achieving airborne noise insulation, isolate the source. Air tight rooms or enclosures
achieve this.
• Residential buildings may be planned to be built in a quiet area. Doors and windows should
not face noise sources.
• Lining of walls and ceilings can be done with air filled materials like straw boards, felts, glass
wool, rock wool, perforated gypsum sheets etc.
• Use of heavy and rigid partitions for walls and floors
• Insulation of impact noise with resilient materials like carpet, linoleum, cork under layers etc.
• Use of expansion joints in large framed structures to reduce transmission of structure born
noises
MEASURES TO REDUCE NOISE AND FOR SOUND
INSULATION contd
• Partition walls with porous materials like porous concrete, cinder, concrete etc
• Providing floating floors, ie additional floors made to rest or float over the existing floor by
means of a resilient material
• Sound insulation can be improved for windows by making them airtight by using filler
materials or rubber beadings.
• Double glazing of glass windows
• Insulated sanitary fittings made to rest on a thin pad of felt, linoleum, cork, rubber etc
• Use of steel plate doors over double wall, hollow cold storage type doors
THANK YOU.

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