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320 Part C Architectural <strong>Acoustics</strong><br />

Part C 9.5<br />

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seat and 50 mm on the back rest), the bot<strong>to</strong>m of the tipup<br />

seats should be perforated or otherwise absorptive,<br />

and when the seat is in its vertical position, there should<br />

be a wide opening between the seat and the back rest so<br />

that the sound can still access the upholstered areas.<br />

9.5.4 Prediction by Computer Simulations<br />

Computer simulations take in<strong>to</strong> account the geometry<br />

and actual distribution of the absorption materials<br />

in a room as well as the actual source and receiver<br />

positions. The results provided are values for all relevant<br />

acoustic parameters as well as the generation<br />

of audio samples for subjective judgments. Computer<br />

simulation is useful not only for the design of con-<br />

Left ear<br />

cert halls and theaters, but also for large spaces such<br />

as fac<strong>to</strong>ries, open-plan offices, atria, traffic terminals,<br />

in which both reverberation, intelligibility and noisemapping<br />

predictions are of interest. Besides, they can be<br />

used in archaeological acoustics for virtual reconstruction<br />

of the acoustics of ancient buildings such as Roman<br />

theaters (http://server.oersted.dtu.dk/www/oldat/era<strong>to</strong>/).<br />

The first computer models appeared in the 1960s,<br />

and <strong>to</strong>day a number of commercially available software<br />

packages are in regular use by acoustic consultants as<br />

well as by researchers all over the world.<br />

In computer simulations the room geometry is represented<br />

by a three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided<br />

design (CAD) model. Thus, the geometry information<br />

can often be imported from a 3-D model file already cre-<br />

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Fig. 9.14 Examples of output from a room acoustic simulation software package (ODEON); see text for explanation<br />

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