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Designing within a Concrete Structure


  17   Sound Isolation: Walls, Floors, and Ceilings
       Walls as Effective Noise Barriers

               The Role of Porous Absorbers
       The Mass Law and Wall Design
       Separation of Mass in Wall Design

       Wall Design Summary
       Improving an Existing Wall
       Flanking Sound

       Gypsum Board Walls as Sound Barriers
       Masonry Walls as Sound Barriers
       Weak Links

       Summary of Wall STC Ratings
       Floating Floors

               Floating Walls and Ceiling
               Resilient Hangers
       Floor/Ceiling Construction
       Footfall Noise

       Floor/Ceiling Structures and Their IIC Performance
       Floor/Ceilings in Frame Buildings

               Floor Attenuation with Concrete Layers
               Plywood Web versus Solid Wood Joists


  18   Sound Isolation: Windows and Doors
       Single-Pane Windows

       Double-Pane Windows
       Acoustical Holes in Glass: Mass-Air-Mass Resonance
       Acoustical Holes in Glass: Coincidence Resonance

       Acoustical Holes in Glass: Standing Waves in the Cavity
       Glass Mass and Spacing
       Dissimilar Panes

       Laminated Glass
       Plastic Panes
       Slanting the Glass

       Third Pane
       Cavity Absorbent
       Thermal Glass

       Example of an Optimized Double-Pane Window
       Construction of an Observation Window

       Proprietary Observation Windows
       Sound-Insulating Doors
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