FRIDAY MORNING, 27 MAY 2016 SALON I, 8:00 A.M. TO 12:05 P.M. Session 5aAA Architectural Acoustics: A Variety of Interesting Research and Observations in Architectural Acoustics David S. Woolworth, Chair Oxford Acoustics, 356 CR 102, Oxford, MS 38655 Chair’s Introduction—8:00 Contributed Papers 8:05 8:35 5aAA1. A potential new and better method for measuring transmission 5aAA3. Design, construction, and evaluation of a binaural dummy loss in the field. Paul D. Schomer (Schomer and Assoc., Inc., 2117 Robert head. Maryam Landi, Vahid Naderyan (Dept. of Phys. and Astronomy & Dr., Champaign, IL 61821,
[email protected]) National Ctr. for Physical Acoust., Univ. of MS, NCPA, 145 Hill Dr., University, MS 38677,
[email protected]), and David S. Woolworth In a recent study, transmission loss (TL) measurements were made from (Roland, Woolworth & Assoc., Oxford, MS, Oxford, MS) outdoors-to-indoors and indoors-to-outdoors of a house. These results agree with one another within 0.6 dB. The agreement achieved in this recent study Binaural-dummy-heads are often used as standard measurement devices is believed to be because the indoor measurements for the indoor-to-outdoor where modeling of the human binaural hearing system is desired. The binau- TL were made at the party-wall surface of the reverberant space. This cur- ral-dummy-head imitates a human head (and torso) which is used in binau- rent paper demonstrates what amounts to a form of pressure doubling at the ral recording as well as research areas such as hearing aids, sound surfaces of the room containing the reverberant field.