From Concert Halls to Noise Barriers: Attenuation from Interference Gratings
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The seat dip effect is a low-frequency attenuation affecting sound travelling at grazing incidence over seating in auditoria. It is caused by scattered sound from the seats interfering with sound travelling directly from the source on the stage. In outdoor noise control, the simple single noise barrier gives good attenuation at high frequencies, but is limited by diffraction at low frequencies. This paper presents some results from an attempt to exploit seat dip attenuation as a tool to control outdoor noise propagation. Boundary element calculations are used to explore the effects of multiple low barriers, trenches, scaling and geometry.
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