• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.113-123
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• 2023

This paper describes the acoustical conditions of elementary school and high school classrooms as well as university classrooms in Korea and suggests a need for Korean acoustic standards and guidelines for classroom design. Current standards and guidelines of classroom acoustics in several countries were briefly introduced to understand their acoustical performance criteria for background noise levels and reverberation times, and noise isolation design requirements in various types of classrooms. The results of several acoustic survey of domestic classrooms in elementary school, high school, and university were described and compared to provide information of the acoustic characteristics of Korean school classrooms. The survey includes occupied and unoccupied data on the acoustical conditions, noise levels, and noise isolation performance in the classrooms. Acoustical parameter values for achieving 'good' speech intelligibility in active university classrooms were also presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.133-142
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• 2023

The office environment is changing according to work types, Information Technology (IT) advancements, and the Coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 situation. In order for office space users to perform their tasks comfortably and efficiently, it is necessary to secure individual privacy as well as easy communication among members. In Korea, the demand for improving the acoustic performance of office spaces is also increasing, but the related performance criteria and guidelines have not been established. In this study, standardization of office space acoustic performance measurement and evaluation methods and European countries' acoustic performance criteria were compared and reviewed. It is proposed to comprehensively review international standardization trends and acoustic performance standards in each country and to establish and utilize criteria for evaluating the acoustic performance and satisfaction of office spaces in Korea through our survey. Considering the international standardization direction and compatibility with communication and Public Address (PA) systems, it is appropriate to establish criteria using the speech transmission index or Speech Transmission Index (STI) application index. This criterion will be highly utilizable and compatible. In addition, since the office furniture industry is interested in improving the acoustic performance of office space, it is necessary to establish a labelling system for speech level reduction of office furniture.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.344-350
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• 2024

A Reference Sound Source (RSS) is an important standard device employed in measuring sound power. The specifications of RSS is specified in international standards, and it is classified as a major calibration item in the field of acoustic metrology. Since the output power of RSS is affected by the supply voltage, each country needs to secure its own calibration service system. In this study, a procedure for calibrating a RSS is established based on the reverberant room conditions and uncertainty evaluation is conducted. Basically, the calibration procedure can apply a precision measurement process of acoustic power, and here, the measurement method using the reverberation chamber of ISO 3741 is applied. For this purpose, a measurement system is constructed, measurements are conducted with two types of RSS, and measurement uncertainty is evaluated. Through measurement examples, it is confirmed that the non-uniformity of the sound pressure distribution in the reverberation room and the volume measurement uncertainty contributed significantly to the overall uncertainty. Additionally, the influence of input voltage is experimentally examined to examine the uncertainty contribution that can be reflected in acoustic power measurements.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.16-22
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• 2000

In order to predict the performance and the usefulness of the narrow-band underwater acoustic measurement system at design stage, whose error variance is not clearly described, in this study a boundary equation to estimate the measurement accuracy is proposed based on the confidency as SNR variation. The boundary is presented as a function of SNR and the number of samples. In this paper, the measurement performance for narrow-band signal is simulated by the proposed boundary equation and the results are reviewed in the biased noise condition and separately in the background noise rejected condition.

• Fire Protection Technology
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• s.42
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• pp.17-25
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• 2007

쾌적하고 명료성이 높은 교실내의 음향환경은 학생들의 학업 성취도 및 교사의 언어전달 이해 향상을 이룩할 수 있는 중요한 사항이다. 이러한 우수한 교육환경을 위해서는 우선 우리나라의 교실 음향 실태 파악과 함께 교육시설의 음향상태 및 소음에 의한 학업 성취도, 심리적, 사회적 영향에 대한 정량적 조사가 이루어 져야 한다. 국내 교육시설의 음향 실태 파악을 통해 교육시설에서의 음향 및 소음 기준을 수립하여 교육시설내의 음환경 개선을 추진해야 한다. 교실 음향개선을 합리적으로 평가할 수 있는 지표로서 잔향시간과 배경소음이 가장 중요한 요소로 알려져 있다. 교실의 우수한 음환경을 위해 적절한 잔향시간은 $0.4\sim0.6$초, 배경소음은 NC-$25\sim30$수준이 확보되어야 하는 것으로 조사되었다. 또한 교사의 음성레벨과 배경소음과의 비(S/N비)는 최소 10 dB이상 되어야 강의 내용 전달이 가능하며, 각종 기계설비에서 발생되는 소음 및 진동은 저소음 기기 선정을 통해 최소화하여야 한다. 인접 실에서 발생되는 소음을 충분히 차단하기 위해서는 차음성능 우수한 구조의 벽계로 개선되어야 하며, 기밀성이 높은 출입문사용과 적절한 출입구 배치를 통해 인접한 교실로의 소음 전달을 최소화 할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.261-264
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• 2000

음향센서의 정확도 시험을 위해서는 사전 약속된 모의신호를 발생하는 기준 음향센서, 즉 모의신호 발생기가 필요하다. 모의신호 발생기는 정확도 시험의 기준이 되므로 위치가 정확하게 산출되어야 하고, 발생시키는 모의신호는 시험 목적에 부합되도록 설계되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 모의신호 발생기의 위치 추정 및 모의신호 발생을 위한 설계 기법을 제안하고, 제안 기법에 대한 위치 추정 알고리즘을 시뮬레이션으로 고찰한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.93-97
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• 1998

미지신호에 대한 측정에서는 오차분산의 명확한 표현이 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 이와 같은 수동측정에서의 측정정확도를 예측하기 위한 방법을 정립한다. 제안된 예측 방법은 신 뢰도를 기반으로 신호대잡음비 및 주파수대역폭과 시간적분과의 곱에 의해 정확도를 표현한 다. 본 논문에서는 배경소음 환경에서의 측정음향을 그대로 분석하는 경우와 배경소음을 예 측하여 측정음향에서 제거시키는 경우를 구분하여 광대역 음향측정시의 성능예측 기준을 시 뮬레이션하고 정확도를 예측한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.70-71
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• 1991

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.463-471
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• 2003

The results of the APMP (Asia Pacific Metrology Programme) regional intercomparison of acoustic calibrators were reviewed and analyzed. The artefacts used in intercomparison are a sound level calibrator and a pistonphone. The microphones used to measure the output pressure level are 1" and 1/2" standard microphones (LS1P, LS2P) as well as 1" and 1/2" reference microphones (WS1P/F, WS2P/F). The results obtained using standard microphones are satisfactory, but those obtained by the reference microphones, even though E/sub n/ values are within ±1.0, showed great deviations. Such results had come from the inaccurate calibration of reference microphones. By using the correct calibration results which were obtained by the recently established international standards, the new results were very similar to those of the foreign standard institutes.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.41-44
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• 1993

End-to-end 디지틀화를 실현하는 종합정보통신망 (ISDN)의 도입으로 음성통신 서비스의 통화품질에 대한 열화요인 및 영향이 기존의 망이나 단말기와는 다른 특성을 갖게 된다. 이러한 변화는 종합정보통신망이나 ISDN 전화기의 전송품질 기준을 새롭게 규정하여야 할 필요성을 도출시킨다. 본 논문에서는 ISDN 전화기의 전송품질 기준을 규정하기 위한 품질평가의 특성들을 기술하고, 이 특성들을 평가하기 위한 음량정격 기준의 설계에 대해서 기술하였다.