Survey method for field measurement of rubber ball impact sound in reinforced concrete apartment houses in Korea – Based on the Korean measurement method

Abstract

The rubber ball impact sound has been standardized by ISO 10140 series and ISO 16283-2 for laboratory and field measurements, respectively. The ISO 10052 standard specifies a survey method for the impact sound measurement using a tapping machine and a rubber ball. This study proposed measurement position for the survey method which is highly correlated with result based on the Korean Standards (KS) and the building regulation of South Korea for engineering method. The rubber ball impact sounds were measured in 79 reinforced concrete apartment houses, which have a centre point and four perimeter points for both exciting and receiving sounds. The proposed survey method was validated for only a specific type of apartment building layout and construction in the South Korean environment. The excitation and receiving points in the perimeter having the most similar characteristics to the results obtained using the Korean engineering methods were first selected. By combining the selected perimeter point and centre point for both the excitation and receiving sounds, the characteristics of each combination were compared with the results obtained using the Korean engineering method. When one excitation point or receiving point in the perimeter was added to the centre point for the proposed survey method, the difference between the measurement result using the engineering and proposed survey method decreased. The standard deviation of the difference between the SNQs of the proposed survey method and the Korean engineering method for measuring the rubber ball impact sound was smaller than 2 dB.