Guide for sound insulation in wood frame construction
By: J.D. Quirt, T.R.T. Nightingale, F. King.
Contributors: King, F.; Nightingale, T. R. T.; Institute for Research in Construction (Canada)
Series: Research report -- 219.
Publisher: Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council Canada
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Wooden-frame buildings -- Soundproofing.; Sound -- Transmission -- Testing.
Description: This Guide addresses flanking transmission of sound through wood framed construction. Continuous structural elements and connections at the junctions of partition walls and floors provide transmission paths that by-pass the separating partition between two noise-sensitive spaces. Flanking transmission is sound transmission between two rooms by paths other than directly through the nominally separating wall or floor assembly. Flanking exists in all buildings and its importance in determining the apparent sound insulation (that perceived by the occupants) depends on of the construction details of the walls, the floors and their junctions.
Notes: "March 2006".

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