Abstract
The objectives of this research are to evaluate acoustic environments and to forecast STI values from spatial component variables in the large classrooms of the Thai public university that were specially controlled the same room finishing materials including the floor, walls, and ceiling. Whereas the five spatial component factors included (1) Room Volume (RV), (2) Ceiling Height (CH), (3) the Ratio of Depth to Width (Rdw), (4) Total Room Surface (TS), and (5) Percentage of Absorbing Surface areas (PAS). The research tools were the smartphones that used the applications for acoustical evaluation and speech intelligibility analysis. The Speech Transmission Index (STI), Reverberation Time (RT), and Background Noise Level (BNL) were collected by the calibrated microphone in the nine points distributed across the entire room. And also, the sounds for testing were simulated such as balloon burst, and STIPA signal via a sound generator. The Thailand Speech Intelligibility (T-SI) model was developed by the multiple regression analysis with a statistical at a confidence level of 95%.The results showed that this T-SI model depended on the strongly positive relationship of PAS and the slightly positive relationship of CH, TS while the RV, Rdw were slightly the negative relationship and which predicted STI values. Moreover, the highest affecting variable of T-SI model was CH and the lowest was PAS. However, this research implies that the improving room acoustic quality would be adjusting the sound absorbing surface areas i.e., increase the cloth curtain or appropriate methods.
Highlights
1.1 Research Background and Conceptual FrameworkThe acoustical conditions in classrooms were the important issues to realize
Every classroom was considered as a large classroom with volumes in a range of 288 to 566 cubic meters complying with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) S12.60 (2002) specifications
The items mentioned in the table below are a summary of the studied areas, which include Room Volume (RV), Ceiling Height (CH), the Ratio of Depth to Width (Rdw), Total Room Surface (TS) and Absorbing Surface areas calculated in percentage (PAS)
Summary
1.1 Research Background and Conceptual FrameworkThe acoustical conditions in classrooms were the important issues to realize. The acoustical environment is generated from the responses of spatial component factors in the interior environment (Paradis, 2014) that comprise room volume, ceiling height, the ratio of depth to width, total room surface, and absorption surface areas. These factors affect acoustical characteristics that occur (Zannin & Marcon, 2007; Rabelo et al, 2014). The measured results were obtained from real classrooms which had many acoustical related factors such as room volume, ceiling height, and room proportion, which were considered and a relationship between occurring spatial factors and acoustical characteristics were investigated via support from statistical program analysis
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